FactorExtractionMethod Enumeration

Enumarates the possible ways to extract factors in a factor analysis.

Definition

Namespace: Extreme.Statistics.Multivariate
Assembly: Extreme.Numerics (in Extreme.Numerics.dll) Version: 8.1.23
C# 
public enum FactorExtractionMethod

Members

PrincipalComponents0 Use the principal components as factors.
IterativePrincipalAxis1 Use an iterative procedure that computes factors based on an estimate for the communalities.
UnweightedLeastSquares2 Find the factors that minimize the squared difference between the original and the reconstructed correlation matrix.
GeneralizedLeastSquares3 Find the factors that minimize the weighted squared difference between the original and the reconstructed correlation matrix.
MaximumLikelihood4 Find the factors that maximize the likelihood of producing the correlation matrix.
AlphaFactoring5 Maximize the alpha-reliability of the factors.
ImageFactoring6 Use a method where the common part of a variable is defined as its linear regression with respect to the other variables.

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