Combining Factors from Different Factor Analyses Based on Factor Congruence KU Leuven Hasselt University
While factor analysis is one of the most often used techniques in psychometrics, comparing or combining solutions from different factor analyses can be cumbersome even though it is necessary in several situations. For example, when applying multiple imputation (to account for incompleteness) or multiple outputation (which can be used to deal with clustering in multilevel data) often tens or hundreds of results have to be combined into one final ...