Date:         Tue, 1 May 2001 10:31:12 -0600
Reply-To:     William Dudley <william.dudley@NURS.UTAH.EDU>
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From:         William Dudley <william.dudley@NURS.UTAH.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Factor Analysis
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David,

You may want to look at a series of papers on this topic in vol 25 (1990) issue1 of Multivariate Behavioral Research.
While I do not disagree with the responses that you are getting, this is a topic on which intellegent people strongly diagree.  In this series of papers, you will read widly contrasting views.


Bill

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>>> David Brown <david_brown123@YAHOO.CA> 05/01/01 07:49AM >>>
Is there any difference between Factor Analysis and
Principal Component Analysis?
I have seen some stats people using it interchangeably
and refereeing them as a same analysis.

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