Determinacy of common factors: A nontechnical review.

RP McDonald, SA Mulaik�- Psychological Bulletin, 1979 - psycnet.apa.org
Argues that most previous accounts of the factor-score indeterminacy problem have failed to
give empirical meaning to alternative factor variables. An empirical interpretation of�…

On the factor score controversy

BF Green�- Psychometrika, 1976 - Springer
On the factor score controversy Page 1 PSYCHOMETRIKA--VOL. 41, NO. 2 JUNE, 1976 ON
THE FACTOR SCORE CONTROVERSY BERT F. GREEN JR. THE JOHNS HOPKINS�…

On the validity of indeterminate factor scores

PH Sch�nemann, JH Steiger�- Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1978 - Springer
A partition of the vector space of all deviation score vectors for fixed sample size N is used to
show that the (indeterminate) factors of the factor model can always be constructed so as to�…

The determinacy of factor score matrices with implications for five other basic problems of common-factor theory.

L Guttman�- British Journal of Statistical Psychology, 1955 - psycnet.apa.org
The extent for which the indirect analysis of the scores is equivalent to a direct analysis is
explored. The existence of solutions and a set of necessary and sufficient conditions of the�…

The measurement of factor indeterminacy

RP McDonald�- Psychometrika, 1974 - Springer
Results obtained by Guttman [1955] on the determinacy of common factors have been
thought to have disturbing consequences for the common factor model. It is argued that�…

A definition for the common-factor analysis model and the elimination of problems of factor score indeterminacy

JS Williams�- Psychometrika, 1978 - Springer
A factor analysis model consists of a random sequence of variates defined on a probability
space and satisfying the usual descriptive equations of the common-factor analysis in which�…

Determining the number of interpretable factors.

CB Crawford�- Psychological Bulletin, 1975 - psycnet.apa.org
Argues that a major weakness of current methods of determining the number of factors is
that they require this decision to be made before rotation; therefore, information on the�…

The effect of additional variables on factor indeterminacy in models with a single common factor

SA Mulaik, RP McDonald�- Psychometrika, 1978 - Springer
Abstract “Determinate” solutions for the indeterminate common factor of p variables
satisfying the single common factor model are not unique. Therefore an infinite sequence of�…

Computing and evaluating factor scores.

JW Grice�- Psychological methods, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
A variety of methods for computing factor scores can be found in the psychological literature.
These methods grew out of a historic debate regarding the indeterminate nature of the�…

The minimum average correlation between equivalent sets of uncorrelated factors

PH Sch�nemann�- Psychometrika, 1971 - Springer
A simplified proof of a lemma by Ledermann [1938], which lies at the core of the factor
indeterminacy issue, is presented. It leads to a representation of an orthogonal matrix T�…