Stepwise variable selection in factor analysis

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作者：
Yutaka Kano
Akira Harada
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[1] Osaka University,Faculty of Human Sciences
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Psychometrika | 2000年 / 65卷
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backward elimination; forward selection; goodness-of-fit measure; Lagrange multiplier test; likelihood ratio test; stepwise variable selection; Wald test; World Wide Web (WWW);
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摘要：
It is very important to choose appropriate variables to be analyzed in multivariate analysis when there are many observed variables such as those in a questionnaire. What is actually done in scale construction with factor analysis is nothing but variable selection.
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