factor analytic
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Factor analytic methods help identify underlying patterns in psychological data.
Definition
- Adjective:
- Relating to factor analysis: Describes something that is connected to or involves the statistical method of factor analysis.
- Being a product of factor analysis: Describes something that is derived or obtained as a result of performing factor analysis.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The researcher presented a factor analytic approach to understand personality traits.
- These dimensions were identified through a factor analytic study of the survey data.
- The factor analytic results confirmed the hypothesized structure of the test.
Advanced Usage
- "factor analytic techniques": The specific statistical procedures used in factor analysis.
- The paper employed advanced factor analytic techniques to reduce the data dimensionality.
- "factor analytic model": A conceptual or mathematical model that underpins a factor analysis.
- The validity of the factor analytic model was assessed using several fit indices.
Variants and Related Words
- Factor analysis (n): The statistical method itself, used to identify underlying relationships between measured variables.
- Exploratory factor analysis is a common technique in social science research.
- Factor (n): In this context, an underlying latent variable or dimension identified through factor analysis.
- The analysis extracted three main factors from the questionnaire items.
Synonyms
- Psychometric (adj): Pertaining to the measurement of mental capacities and processes, often involving factor analysis.
- Multivariate (adj): Involving multiple variables, a category which includes factor analytic methods.
Related Phrases
- "to run a factor analysis": To perform the statistical procedure.
- We need to run a factor analysis on this correlation matrix.
- "factor loadings": The correlations between the original variables and the extracted factors, a key result of factor analytic procedures.
- The factor loadings indicated which questions were most strongly associated with each factor.
Factor analytic methods help identify underlying patterns in psychological data.
Adjective
- of or relating to or the product of factor analysis