dwyer function

8 cognitive variables used by Dwyer for an example.

Dwyer (1937) introduced a technique for factor extension and used 8 cognitive variables from Thurstone. This is the example data set used in his paper. data

data(Dwyer)

Format

The format is: num [1:8, 1:8] 1 0.58 -0.28 0.01 0.36 0.38 0.61 0.15 0.58 1 ... - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 ..$: chr [1:8] "V1" "V2" "V3" "V4" ... ..$ : chr [1:8] "V1" "V2" "V3" "V4" ...

Source

Data matrix retyped from the original publication.

References

Dwyer, Paul S. (1937), The determination of the factor loadings of a given test from the known factor loadings of other tests. Psychometrika, 3, 173-178

Examples

data(Dwyer)
Ro <- Dwyer[1:7,1:7]
Roe <- Dwyer[1:7,8]
fo <- fa(Ro,2,rotate="none")
fa.extension(Roe,fo)