xF A C T O R

Unrestricted Factor Analysis

Release Version 12.04.01 x64bits

May, 2023
Rovira i Virgili University
Tarragona, SPAIN

Programming:
Urbano Lorenzo-Seva

Mathematical Specification:
Urbano Lorenzo-Seva
Pere J. Ferrando

Date: Thursday, August 31, 2023

Time: 13:59:43
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DETAILS OF ANALYSIS

Participants' variance/covariance data file : E:\ARTICULOS\RESAC\

extoperassinacq.dat
Number of participants : 7
Number of variables : 7
Variables included in the analysis : ALL
Variables excluded in the analysis : NONE
Number of factors : 1
Number of second order factors : 0
Procedure for determining the number of dimensions : Minimum Average Partial
(MAP) (Velicer, 1976)
Dispersion matrix : User defined
Robust analyses based on bootstrap : None
Method for factor extraction : Robust MORGANA factor
analysis
Correction for Chi square : LOSEFER empirical correction
(Lorenzo-Seva & Ferrando, 2023)
Rotation to achieve factor simplicity : Promin (Lorenzo-Seva, 1999)
Clever rotation start : Weighted Varimax
Number of random starts : 100
Maximum mumber of iterations : 1000
Convergence value : 0.00001000
Factor scores estimates : Estimates based on linear
model

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DISPERSION MATRIX (USER DEFINED)

Variable 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
V 1 1.000
V 2 -0.045 1.000
V 3 0.023 -0.006 1.000
V 4 0.016 0.095 0.034 1.000
V 5 0.022 0.160 0.032 0.174 1.000
V 6 0.026 0.133 0.021 0.126 0.206 1.000
V 7 0.034 0.015 0.071 0.049 0.065 0.057 1.000

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ADEQUACY OF THE USER DEFINED COVARIANCE MATRIX

Determinant of the matrix = 0.867217612209106

Bartlett's statistic = 0.4 (df = 21; P = 1.000000)
Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) test = 0.61719 (mediocre)

NORMED ITEM-MSA INDICES

Items Normed MSA

1 0.50161
2 0.62573
3 0.56638
4 0.64469
5 0.60443
6 0.62405
7 0.61653

Number of items proposed to be removed: NONE

Values of MSA below .50 suggest that the item does not measure the same domain as
the remaining items in the pool, and so that it should be removed.

Lorenzo-Seva, U. & Ferrando, P.J. (2021) MSA: the forgotten index for identifying
inappropriate items
before computing exploratory item factor analysis. Methodology, in
press.

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EXPLAINED VARIANCE BASED ON EIGENVALUES

Variable Eigenvalue Proportion of Cumulative Proportion

Variance of Variance

1 1.47986 0.21141 0.21141

2 1.08773 0.15539
3 0.98837 0.14120
4 0.92579 0.13226
5 0.89109 0.12730
6 0.84778 0.12111
7 0.77938 0.11134

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MINIMUM AVERAGE PARTIAL TEST (MAP)

Velicer (1976)

Dimensions Averaged Partial

1 0.03118*
2 0.14423
3 1.00000

* Advised number of dimensions: 1

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GOODNESS OF FIT STATISTICS

Goodness of Fit Index (GFI) = 0.996

Adjusted Goodness of Fit Index (AGFI) = 0.993
Goodness of Fit Index without diagonal values (GFI) = 0.905
Adjusted Goodness of Fit Index without diagonal values(AGFI) = 0.833

EIGENVALUES OF THE REDUCED CORRELATION MATRIX

Variable Eigenvalue

1 0.632418571
2 0.112475363
3 0.030355449
4 -0.004802063
5 -0.051057931
6 -0.064486053
7 -0.066565765

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UNROTATED LOADING MATRIX

Variable F 1 Communality

V 1 0.029 0.001
V 2 0.319 0.102
V 3 0.054 0.003
V 4 0.241 0.058
V 5 0.444 0.197
V 6 0.459 0.211
V 7 0.128 0.016

EXPLAINED VARIANCE AND RELIABILITY

Mislevy & Bock (1990)

Factor Variance Reliability estimate

1 0.588 0.415

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ESTIMATED RESIDUAL CORRELATION BETWEEN PAIRS OF VARIABLES ESTIMATED BY MORGANA

FACTOR ANALYSIS
Ferrando & Lorenzo, 2023)

PAIRS OF VARIABLES

PAIR: V 4 -- V 5
ESTIMATED RESIDUAL CORRELATION VALUE OF THE PAIR: 0.076

PAIR: V 3 -- V 7
ESTIMATED RESIDUAL CORRELATION VALUE OF THE PAIR: 0.065
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DISTRIBUTION OF RESIDUALS

Number of Residuals = 21

Summary Statistics for Fitted Residuals

Smallest Fitted Residual = -0.0539

Median Fitted Residual = 0.0082
Largest Fitted Residual = 0.0304
Mean Fitted Residual = 0.0033
Variance Fitted Residual = 0.0004

Root Mean Square of Residuals (RMSR) = 0.0193

Expected mean value of RMSR for an acceptable model = 0.4082 (Kelley's criterion)
(Kelley, 1935,page 13; see also Harman, 1962, page 21 of the 2nd edition)

Histogram for fitted residuals

Value Freq
|
-0.0539 1 | ****
-0.0399 0 |
-0.0258 2 | ********
-0.0118 1 | ****
0.0023 9 | ****************************************
0.0163 7 | *******************************
0.0304 1 | ****
+-----------+---------+---------+-----------+
0 2.2 4.5 6.8 9.0

Summary Statistics for Standardized Residuals

Smallest Standardized Residual = -0.13

Median Standardized Residual = 0.02
Largest Standardized Residual = 0.07
Mean Standardized Residual = 0.01

Stemleaf Plot for Standardized Residuals

-0 | 111
0 | 000000000000000111

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References

Harman, H. H. (1962). Modern Factor Analysis, 2nd Edition. University of Chicago

Press, Chicago.

Kelley, T. L. (1935). Essential Traits of Mental Life, Harvard Studies in

Education, vol. 26. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Lorenzo-Seva, U., & Ferrando, P.J. (2023). A simulation-based scaled test statistic
for assessing model-data fit in least-squares unrestricted factor-analysis
solutions. Methodology, 19, 96-115. doi:10.5964/meth.9839

McDonald, R.P. (1999). Test theory: A unified treatment. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum.

Mardia, K. V. (1970). Measures of multivariate skewnees and kurtosis with

applications. Biometrika, 57, 519-530. doi:10.2307/2334770

Mislevy, R.J., & Bock, R.D. (1990). BILOG 3 Item analysis and test scoring with
binary logistic models. Mooresville: Scientific Software.

Ten Berge, J.M.F., Snijders, T.A.B. & Zegers, F.E. (1981). Computational aspects of
the greatest lower bound to reliability and constrained minimum trace factor
analysis. Psychometrika, 46, 201-213. doi:10.1007/bf02293900

Ten Berge, J.M.F., & Socan, G. (2004). The greatest lower bound to the reliability
of a test and the hypothesis of unidimensionality. Psychometrika, 69, 613-625.
doi:10.1007/bf02289858

Velicer, W. F. (1976). Determining the number of components from the matrix of

partial correlations. Psychometrika, 41, 321-327. doi:10.1007/bf02293557

Woodhouse, B. & Jackson, P.H. (1977). Lower bounds to the reliability of the total
score on a test composed of nonhomogeneous items: II. A search procedure to locate
the greatest lower bound. Psychometrika, 42, 579-591. doi:10.1007/bf02295980

FACTOR is based on CLAPACK.

Anderson, E., Bai, Z., Bischof, C., Blackford, S., Demmel, J., Dongarra, J., Du
Croz, J., Greenbaum, A., Hammarling, S., McKenney, A., & Sorensen, D. (1999).
LAPACK Users' Guide. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Philadelphia,
PA

FACTOR can be refered as:

Ferrando, P.J., & Lorenzo-Seva, U. (2017). Program FACTOR at 10: origins,
development and future directions. Psicothema, 29(2), 236-241. doi:
10.7334/psicothema2016.304
Lorenzo-Seva, U., & Ferrando, P.J. (2013). FACTOR 9.2 A comprehensive program for
fitting exploratory and semiconfirmatory factor analysis and IRT models. Applied
Psychological Measurement, 37(6), 497-498. doi:10.1177/0146621613487794
Lorenzo-Seva, U., & Ferrando, P.J. (2006). FACTOR: A computer program to fit the
exploratory factor analysis model. Behavioral Research Methods, 38(1), 88-91.
10.3758/bf03192753

For further information and new releases go to:

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FACTOR completed

Computing time : 0.00000000 minutes.

Matrices generated : 29331

Our last advice: Distrust 5% of statistics, and 95% of statisticians. (Cal

desconfiar un 5% de l'estadistica, i un 95% de l'estadistic.)