An Investigation of the Goodness of Fit of the Maximum Likelihood Estimation Procedure in Factor Analysis

Abstract

Factor analysis is a frequently used model building technique, especially in sciences where a large number of variables need to be studied. Unfortunately, little work has been done on ways of testing the goodness of fit of the model to the data. Several techniques for testing this goodness of fit have been evaluated in this investigation. In addition, these techniques were used to evaluate the maximum likelihood estimation procedure as a factor analytic method.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0743097

Entities

People

  • Lloyd G. Humphreys
  • Richard G. Montanelli Jr.

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Science
  • Factor Analysis
  • Information Science
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Network Science
  • Numbers
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Real Numbers
  • Reliability
  • Simulations
  • Square Roots
  • Statistics

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.