Northwestern University Press, 1970 Paper: 978-0-8101-0824-0 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-0254-5 Library of Congress Classification HA33.R85 Dewey Decimal Classification 300.182
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Applied Factor Analysis was written to help others apply factor analysis throughout the sciences with the conviction that factor analysis is a calculus of the social sciences. The book developed from research undertaken to do a 236-variable cross-national analysis.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
R. J. RUMMEL is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science. He has published twenty-four nonfiction books (one that received an award for being among the most referenced), six novels, and about 100 peer-reviewed professional articles; has received the Susan Strange Award of the International Studies Association in 1999 for having intellectually most challenged the field; and in 2003 was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conflict Processes Section, American Political Science Association. He has been frequently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Analytic Table of Contents
Table of Notation
Part One: Orientation
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Philosophy of Factor Analysis
Part Two: Structure, Matrices, and Design of Factor Analysis
Chapter 3 Preliminary Descriptive and Vector Concepts
Chapter 4 Preliminary Matrix Algebra
Chapter 5 Factor Analysis Models
Chapter 6 The Factor Matrices
Chapter 7 The Factoring Design
Part Three: Preparing the Data
Chapter 8 The Factor Analysis Question
Chapter 9 Operationalization
Chapter 10 Data
Chapter 11 Distributional Transformations
Chapter 12 Matrix Transformation
Chapter 13 Communality
Part Four: The Analysis
Chapter 14 Factor Techniques
Chapter 15 Number of Factors
Chapter 16 Orthogonal Rotation
Chapter 17 Oblique Rotation
Chapter 18 Higher-Order Factors
Chapter 19 Factor Scores
Part Five: The Results
Chapter 20 Factor Comparison
Chapter 21 Interpretation
Chapter 22 Distances
Chapter 23 Publication
Chapter 24 Applications
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
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Northwestern University Press, 1970 Paper: 978-0-8101-0824-0 Cloth: 978-0-8101-0254-5
Applied Factor Analysis was written to help others apply factor analysis throughout the sciences with the conviction that factor analysis is a calculus of the social sciences. The book developed from research undertaken to do a 236-variable cross-national analysis.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
R. J. RUMMEL is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science. He has published twenty-four nonfiction books (one that received an award for being among the most referenced), six novels, and about 100 peer-reviewed professional articles; has received the Susan Strange Award of the International Studies Association in 1999 for having intellectually most challenged the field; and in 2003 was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conflict Processes Section, American Political Science Association. He has been frequently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Analytic Table of Contents
Table of Notation
Part One: Orientation
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Philosophy of Factor Analysis
Part Two: Structure, Matrices, and Design of Factor Analysis
Chapter 3 Preliminary Descriptive and Vector Concepts
Chapter 4 Preliminary Matrix Algebra
Chapter 5 Factor Analysis Models
Chapter 6 The Factor Matrices
Chapter 7 The Factoring Design
Part Three: Preparing the Data
Chapter 8 The Factor Analysis Question
Chapter 9 Operationalization
Chapter 10 Data
Chapter 11 Distributional Transformations
Chapter 12 Matrix Transformation
Chapter 13 Communality
Part Four: The Analysis
Chapter 14 Factor Techniques
Chapter 15 Number of Factors
Chapter 16 Orthogonal Rotation
Chapter 17 Oblique Rotation
Chapter 18 Higher-Order Factors
Chapter 19 Factor Scores
Part Five: The Results
Chapter 20 Factor Comparison
Chapter 21 Interpretation
Chapter 22 Distances
Chapter 23 Publication
Chapter 24 Applications
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
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