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Waller, Niels G. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2023
Although many textbooks on multivariate statistics discuss the common factor analysis model, few of these books mention the problem of factor score indeterminacy (FSI). Thus, many students and contemporary researchers are unaware of an important fact. Namely, for any common factor model with known (or estimated) model parameters, infinite sets of…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Multivariate Analysis, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure