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Factor analysis: Quiz
  
  

Question 1: Factor analysis is related to ________ (PCA) but not identical.
Information theoryPrincipal component analysisAdaptive DPCMAudio compression (data)

Question 2: The Kaiser criterion is the default in ________ and most computer programs but is not recommended when used as the sole cut-off criterion for estimated the number of factors.
SAS (software)SPSSPSPPMathematica

Question 3: It is linked to ________, as it can assess the validity of an instrument by finding if the instrument indeed measures the postulated factors.
Industrial and organizational psychologyEducational psychologyPsychologyPsychometrics

Question 4: Cattell was a strong advocate of factor analysis and ________.
PsychometricsIndustrial and organizational psychologyPsychologyEducational psychology

Question 5: ________ (PCA): The most common form of factor analysis, PCA seeks a linear combination of variables such that the maximum variance is extracted from the variables.
Principal component analysisInformation theoryAudio compression (data)Adaptive DPCM

Question 6: Image factoring: based on the ________ of predicted variables rather than actual variables, where each variable is predicted from the others using multiple regression.
Correlation and dependencePearson product-moment correlation coefficientVarianceNormal distribution

Question 7: Factor analysis originated in psychometrics, and is used in behavioral sciences, social sciences, ________, product management, operations research, and other applied sciences that deal with large quantities of data.
AdvertisingMarketingMarketing managementBusiness marketing

Question 8: There is no prior theory and one uses ________ to intuit the factor structure of the data.
Eigenvalue, eigenvector and eigenspaceSAS (software)Factor analysisLinear regression

Question 9: Note that for any ________ Q if we set L = LQ and F = QTF, the criteria for being factors and factor loadings still hold.
Orthogonal groupGroup (mathematics)Matrix (mathematics)Orthogonal matrix

Question 10: ________: The Cattell scree test plots the components as the X axis and the corresponding eigenvalues as the Y-axis.
Principal component analysisAdaptive DPCMInformation theoryAudio compression (data)
















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