How does factor analysis work?

Related questions

1. What is a latent variable in psychology?
2. What does the covariance tell us?
3. How do you calculate communality in factor analysis?
4. What will happen when eigenvalues are roughly equal?
5. What is KMO and Bartlett's test of sphericity?
6. What does negative factor loading mean?
7. What does a covariance of 0 mean?
8. What is the difference between endogenous and exogenous variables?
9. What is a PCA loading?
10. What is SRMR?

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