Principal Component Analysis and Factor Analysis

The Craft of Statistical Analysis Webinars

 

Principal Component Analysis

Statistically Speaking Webinars

Confirmatory Factor Analysis

 

 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?

How to Reduce the Number of Variables to Analyze

Correlated Errors in Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Life After Exploratory Factor Analysis: Estimating Internal Consistency

Confirmatory Factor Analysis: How To Measure Something We Cannot Observe or Measure Directly

Three Myths and Truths About Model Fit in Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Four Common Misconceptions in Exploratory Factor Analysis