Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) is a pivotal statistical approach that enables researchers to uncover latent structures in complex datasets, a process that is increasingly integral to higher ...

The present studies used exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses to explore the degree to which probability discounting processes are similar to delay discounting processes. To determine whether ...

Coastal water quality plays an important role in people's lives. In this study, the coastal water of the Penghu archipelago was used as a research object. Three types of multivariate methods—factor ...

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Let's use this classical statistics technique -- and some R, of course -- to get to some of the latent variables hiding in your data. Factor analysis is a classical statistics technique that examines ...