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Direct linkLiu, Yan; Zumbo, Bruno D.; Wu, Amery D. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2012
Previous studies have rarely examined the impact of outliers on the decisions about the number of factors to extract in an exploratory factor analysis. The few studies that have investigated this issue have arrived at contradictory conclusions regarding whether outliers inflated or deflated the number of factors extracted. By systematically…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Data, Simulation, Monte Carlo Methods
