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Three Common Factor Models for Groups of Variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Roderick P. McDonald
Roderick P. McDonald*
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The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
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Abstract

For the case of two or more groups of variables (batteries), generalizations on three common factor models, the Equal Residual Variances model, the Image model of Jöreskog, and the Canonical Factor Analysis model, are described and illustrated with empirical examples.

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Psychometrika , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 1970 , pp. 111 - 128
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Copyright © 1970 The Psychometric Society

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The author is indebted to Dr. E. J. Burr for his valuable criticisms.

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