Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis: Understanding Concepts and Applications - Hardcover

Thompson, Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1591470935 ISBN 13: 9781591470939

Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn, 2004

Synopsis

This volume presents the important concepts required for implementing two disciplines of factor analysis - exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) - with an emphasis on EFA-CFA linkages. Modern extensions of older data analysis methods (e.g. analysis of variance, regression, multivariate analysis of variance, and descriptive discriminant analysis) have brought theory-testing procedures to the analytic forefornt. Variations of factor analysis, such as the factoring of people or time, have great potential to inform psychological research.
Instructors or students who seek a clear and concise test about factor analysis will find this book to be an invaluable resource.

About this title

About the Author:

Bruce Thompson is a professor and distinguished research scholar at the Department of Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University, adjunct professor of family and community medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (Houston), and professor of interdisciplinary health sciences at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1591470935
• ISBN 13: 9781591470939
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 195