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The jackknife by groups and modifications of the jackknife by groups are used to estimate standard errors of rotated factor loadings for selected populations in common factor model maximum likelihood factor analysis. Simulations are performed in whicht-statistics based upon these jackknife estimates of the standard errors are computed. The validity of thet-statistics and their associated confidence intervals is assessed. Methods are given through which the computational efficiency of the jackknife may be greatly enhanced in the factor analysis model.
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Computing assistance was obtained from the Health Sciences Computing Facility, UCLA, sponsored by NIH Special Research Resources Grant RR-3.
The author wishes to thank his doctoral committee co-chairmen, Drs James W. Frane and Robert I. Jennrich, UCLA, for their contributions to this research.
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Clarkson, D.B. Estimating the standard errors of rotated factor loadings by jackknifing. Psychometrika 44, 297–314 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02294695
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