Principal Component Analysis and Factor Analysis

Free The Craft of Statistical Analysis Webinars

Principal Component Analysis

Statistically Speaking Webinars

• February 2017 Member Webinar: Confirmatory Factor Analysis

•  March 2013 Member Webinar: Exploratory Factor Analysis

Workshops

• Principal Component and Factor Analysis

Articles at The Analysis Factor

Introduction to Factor Analysis Series

• Factor Analysis: A Short Introduction, Part 1

• Factor Analysis: A Short Introduction, Part 2–Rotations

• Factor Analysis: A Short Introduction, Part 3-The Difference Between Confirmatory and Exploratory Factor Analysis

• Factor Analysis: A Short Introduction, Part 4–How many factors should I find?

• Factor Analysis: A Short Introduction, Part 5–Dropping unimportant variables from your analysis

• Factor Analysis: A Short Introduction, Part 6–Common Problems

Specific Issues in PCA and FA

• In Factor Analysis, How Do We Decide Whether to Have Rotated or Unrotated Factors?

• The Fundamental Difference Between Principal Component Analysis and Factor Analysis

• How To Calculate an Index Score from a Factor Analysis

• Can You Use Principal Component Analysis with a Training Set Test Set Model?

• In Principal Component Analysis, Can Loadings Be Negative?

• Principal Component Analysis for Ordinal Scale Items

• Three Tips for Principal Component Analysis

• Can We Use PCA for Reducing Both Predictors and Response Variables?