Factor analysis is a tool to help a researcher ‘throw a hoop’ around clusters of related items (i.e., items that seem to share a central underlying theme), to distinguish between clusters, and to identify and eliminate irrelevant or indistinct (overlapping) items. is a tool to help a researcher ‘throw a hoop’ around clusters of related items (i.e., items that seem to share a central underlying theme), to distinguish between clusters, and to identify and eliminate irrelevant or indistinct (overlapping) items.
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