SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS IN PRINCIPAL FACTOR ANALYSIS: A NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION

Yoshimasa Odaka; Yutaka Tanaka

doi:10.2333/bhmk.17.27_87

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Keywords: sensitivity, influence function, influential observations, principal factor analysis, noniterative procedure, iterative procedure

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1990 Volume 17 Issue 27 Pages 87-100

DOI https://doi.org/10.2333/bhmk.17.27_87

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Abstract

As a continuation of Tanaka and Odaka (1989a), which proposed a procedure for sensitivity analysis in the iterative principal factor analysis (PFA), influence functions are derived for sensitivity analysis in two procedures of noniterative PFA. A numerical investigation is carried out to study the validity and usefulness of the proposed procedures and a comparison is made among various procedures of PFA from the viewpoint of sensitivity.

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