L. L. Thurstone’s scientific contributions

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Multiple Factor Analysis
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September 1931

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Psychological Review

L. L. Thurstone

The purpose of the paper is to describe a more generally applicable method of factor analysis which has no restrictions as regards group factors and which does not restrict the number of general factors that are operative in producing the intercorrelation. Applications of the method to different types of correlation problems are suggested. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

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... Pearson [2] introduced the principal component method as a statistical technique for reducing the dimensionality of data, which was developed by Hotelling [3] to use in factor analysis. Additionally, Garnett [4] introduced the concept of multiple-factor analysis and Thurstone [5] presented the Multiple Factor Theory. Numerous studies for the method of factor analysis and its applications have become more important in various research areas such as finance, economics, psychology, sociology, genomics, and biology. ...

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Robust L1-norm Estimation for Exploratory Factor Analysis Model
Multiple Factor Analysis
  • Citing Article
  • September 1931

Psychological Review