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Date:         Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:45:47 -0400
Reply-To:     "Dogan, Enis" <edogan@air.org>
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From:         "Dogan, Enis" <edogan@air.org>
Subject:      factor analyzing the Tetrachoric correlations
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Dear list,

 

I am factor analyzing a set of 42 dichotomously scored test items (in
order to understand test dimensionality).

I calculated the Tetrachoric correlations (I can share the syntax if
anyone's interested); so my input file is a correlation matrix. My
question is:

Is there a particular type of rotation that works "better" with this
type of data? Or the same good-old rules apply here too? 

 

Best

 

Enis