A step-by-step guide to exploratory factor analysis with Stata

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    • Watkins, Marley W.

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A step-by-step guide to exploratory factor analysis with Stata

Marley W. Watkins

Routledge, 2022

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-185) and index

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Description

1. This book is applicable to courses across the social and behavioral science on a wide range of quantitative methods courses. 2. The book is based solely on Stata for EFA - one of the top statistics software packages used in behavioral and social sciences. 3. Clear step-by-step guidance combined with screen shots to show how to apply EFA to real data.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Data 3. Stata Software 4. Importing and Saving Data 5. Decision Steps in Exploratory Factor Analysis 6. Step 1: Variables to Include 7. Step 2: Participants 8. Step 3: Data Screening 9. Step 4: Is Exploratory Factor Analysis Appropriate? 10. Step 5: Factor Analysis Model 11. Step 6: Factor Extraction Method 12. Step 7: How many Factors to Retain 13. Step 8: Rotate Factors 14. Step 9: Interpret Exploratory Factor Analysis Results 15. Step 10: Report Exploratory Factor Analysis Results 16. Exploratory Factor Analysis with Categorical Variables 17. Higher-Order and Bifactor Models 18. Exploratory versus Confirmatory Factor Analysis 19. Practice Exercises References and Resources

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