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Re: st: % of variance in factor analysis
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Re: st: % of variance in factor analysis
Date
Wed, 29 May 2013 20:53:10 -0400
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Mash Hamid <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I have been performing factor analysis and I am having trouble understanding the % of variance and to explain it in layman's terms.
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> I have a dataset with 40 variables and the first factor has an eigenvalue of 13 and the second factor has an eigenvalue of 2. Now the first factor accounts for 40% of the variance, and the second has variance of 8% after rotation. Now in layman's terms, what does "% of the variance of each factor" mean?
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http://www.quantpsy.org/pubs/preacher_maccallum_2003.pdf
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