Volume 14, Issue 1 p. 1-2

A NOTE ON GUTTMAN'S LOWER BOUND FOR THE NUMBER OF COMMON FACTORS1

Henry F. Kaiser

Henry F. Kaiser

University of Illinois

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First published: May 1961
Citations: 227

This research was supported by the United States Air Force under Contract No. AF41 (657)-76, Professor Charles Wrigley, principal investigator.

Abstract

Guttman's classic lower bound for the number of common factors is extended to the completely general case where communalities may lie in the closed interval from zero to one.