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| Autor/inn/en | Liu, Yan; Zumbo, Bruno D. |
|---|---|
| Titel | Impact of Outliers Arising from Unintended and Unknowingly Included Subpopulations on the Decisions about the Number of Factors in Exploratory Factor Analysis |
| Quelle | In: Educational and Psychological Measurement, 72 (2012) 3, S.388-414 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0013-1644 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0013164411429821 |
| Schlagwörter | Factor Analysis; Factor Structure; Evaluation Research; Evaluation Methods; Research Methodology; Statistical Analysis; Simulation; Matrices; Correlation; Decision Making; Models; Psychometrics; Test Bias |
| Abstract | There is a lack of research on the effects of outliers on the decisions about the number of factors to retain in an exploratory factor analysis, especially for outliers arising from unintended and unknowingly included subpopulations. The purpose of the present research was to investigate how outliers from an unintended and unknowingly included subpopulation affected the decisions about the number of factors to retain using four commonly used methods separately. The results showed that all the decision methods could provide biased results and the number of factors could be inflated, deflated, or remain the same depending on the decision methods used and outlier conditions. The findings also revealed that symmetric outliers did not affect the three principal component analysis-based methods but affected chi-square (ML) sequential tests. Finally, sample size did not play a role in the effect of outliers. (Contains 5 figures, 8 tables and 2 notes.) (As Provided). |
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| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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