Exploratory Factor Analysis

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I learn all this in 15 minutes what has taken 4 years and $10,000. Thanks for this. Simple,clear with no distracting loud music.

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Many thanks : ) Regards Hannah

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I was struggling with factor analysis and I had zero background in this. You video just saved my life, explained so nicely and such a clear visual representation within such short amount of time! Can't thank you more. Keep posting more please.

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[@emilyjanesGS]

Varimax is an orthogonal rotation, which assumes that factors are unrelated to each other. In your example, you've used personality traits, which are psychological constructs and would be expected to be related to each other (in psych, constructs are rarely if ever completely unrelated). An oblique rotation, which assumes factors are related, would normally be the most sensible choice in psychology research. The appropriateness of orthogonal vs oblique rotation for their variables/discipline is something people should be aware of and consider in EFA.

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It's amazing how deep a rabbit hole every step of my research is taking me into, but again I'm the idiot who decided to make my own instrument for my first research project :')

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Thank you so much. You provided a much clearer explanation that my lecturer or any text books!

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One of the best lectures on EFA I have sat through

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Thank you, this has been so helpful to me. I'm a 1st year PhD student in social sciences working on my first literature review.

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one of the best videos on explanation of FACTOR ANALYSIS. THANKS A LOT. BY HEART 🧡🧡

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Very easy to understand video. One of the best on KZbin ❤

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Great explanation! I appreciate you guys.

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Our pleasure! Regards Hannah & Mathias

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Glad you liked it! Regards, Hannah

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At 9:22 figures do not match your explanation. This creates confusion. Can you please check it?

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Great teaching!

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[@kanchandatta4668]

which one is 1 and which one is 5 is not mentioned. some times scalling starts from 5,4,3 ..1 or some times , in ascending order. which order has been followed here? i think 5,4,3,2,1 . Am I correct?

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A very good presentation

[@teokailun94]

Sorry I have a question here.... If I want to perform bivariate correlations of the factors after EFA, how do I transform data from the multiple variables into data for a single factor for the correlation analysis with other factors? Thanks for your time and attention.

[@datatab]

Sorry for the late reply! Unfortunately, I can not answer you in a hurry, I would have to read up first! Regards Hannah

[@utsavkhanna5369]

I have a query, the variance of the variables, for each factor, in the component matrix, is same, as the variance of the variables for each factor in the rotation matrix, I don't see any difference between the two methods, what is the difference between the two methods?

[@woblogs2941]

thank you so much ... if the kink is formed below eigen value 1 then what to do?

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[@MrWho-qh9zq]

What about factor loading, how to calculate that, am I missing something ?

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[@samuelganslandtGrive]

Great video Danke! One question I have is for the last step, why do we only take the largets 2 values per factor; is it for this specific example to make the personality test more equal, or is there some underlying rule; Could we not assign like 3 largest values to a factor, or how does it work specifically?

[@joeobama-ox1ye]

Taking the largest 2 values per factor helps simplify interpretation by focusing on the most significant variables. This isn't a strict rule; it can be adjusted based on research goals, data characteristics, and theoretical frameworks. Using the top 3 values or more is also possible if a more detailed analysis is needed.

[@splham]

Thank you. Do we calculate the Eigean value first to assign the numbers of factor?

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Perfect explanation

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[@sasakevin3263]

What's the difference between factor analysis and PCA?

[@jamesgrellier4750]

It's a good question. In the presentation, I got the feeling that the term "components" (i.e. the term used in PCA) is used to mean "factors" here. I think that the difference is that PCA is seeking to reduce dimensionality of an analysis through creating components that "summarise" a greater number of variables, whereas for EFA the goal is to elucidate explicitly latent variables.

[@mariussautmannsautmann751]

Exploratory factor analysis seeks for underlying dimensions that explain correlations among the variables, whereas PCA reduce variables into sets of factors (Principle Components) to explain the dataset with a fewer number of variables.

[@matthewsilver5455]

This is great!! Thank you so much! I was just wondering why you used 3 as the amount of factors at the beginning? How did you know to use that instead of 2,4,5 etc.

[@quantquill]

This is explained in the video. Because the model output shows three factors have Eigenvalues greater than 1.

[@datatab]

You can use the eigenvalue criterion or the elbow method. I think they are also explained in the video! Regards Hannah

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Many thanks Quant Quill!

[@jamesgrellier4750]

@@datatab I think that the question was: why do you set the factor levels at 3 as the first step in the PCA. In other words, why would you set the factor levels at 3 prior to creating the eigenvectors etc.? I am also curious - because in the Explained Total Variance table you have 6 factors ("components") listed rather than the 3 you selected.

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Thanks ma'am it really helped me a lot

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This Video was very helpful .

[@shawnershorts]

So, please correct me if I'm wrong (I'm revisiting the topic). When you identify the each factor, you can create a factor score for each individual by using the relevant component values in each factor and the actual individual observations, right?

[@joeobama-ox1ye]

Yes, that's correct! When you've identified the factors in a factor analysis, you can indeed create a factor score for each individual.

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Love this! thank you!

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Super helpful 😊

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Great explanations (y)

[@user-jn3pd7od3w]

Thank you very much for your clear & precise explanation. Is there any difference(s) on conducting PCA, EFA and CFA?

[@datatab]

Yes there is a small difference!

[@user-jn3pd7od3w]

@@datatab Thank you for making this easy-to-use software and the training material. It helps a lot. One Suggestion: please add a button of "Select ALL" for lazy people like me. I am doing PCA & Reliability of 40 variables; but have to click them one by one after switching to one another analytical tool. thanks again.

[@yaweli2968]

In PCA, proportion of eigenvalues > 80% is also considered as third method.

[@datatab]

Many thanks for the hint! Regards Hannah

[@bluemmttr]

Hello. thanks for your video. i have a qoestion. Is it necessary to do exploratory factor analysis to perform structural equation analysis of a theoretically determined structure?

[@kanalensomermads]

I just dont understand the difference between EFA and PCA then? Isnt this PCA?

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pls if you are online please help me by how to analysis logistic regression with more than 13 independent variable and how to check and write interpreted report

[@itsnotme6465]

hi, and thanks for the video . i wanted to ask what variance is. plz use an example . Thank u

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Thanks for your question, we have a video on Variance: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKmbkpKgmdGrd7M

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Excellent....

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Many thanks : ) Regards Hannah

[@AbdelhamidSuleiman]

Hello Hannah, can the underlying factors be seen as independent variables and the observeable phenomena as dependent variables? Best regards!

[@ebnouseyid5518]

Thanks for the wonderful lecture. I have a question in EFA: The assumption that the measurement errors are not correlated between them? This assumption isn't valid in reality ?

[@datatab]

Hmm, I can't answer that for you unfortunately! It is true that in reality the requirements are often not taken quite so strictly!

[@haceraltan2604]

what is identity matrix? is it component matrix?

[@foroughho9236]

Hi can you also create a video on confirmatory factor analysis please?

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very helpful. thank you

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Glad it was helpful!

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Excellent. Kindly upload videos on Research Designs

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Many Thanks!!! We will put it on our To-Do List!!! Regards, Hannah & Mathias

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You just saved a life.

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Thanks. This is awesome

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Thanks for the nice Feedback! Hannah & Mathias

[@oscargomezgonzalez8373]

PCA is not EFA. You said "In Statistics Exploratory Factor Analysis is also called Principal Component Analysis (PCA)" but that's not true. Those are two different analyses. That's a common confusion, but pls, check the differences.

[@jenniferlu4740]

Am I missing something here??? Why is the entire video on PCA...

[@datatab]

Many thanks for your feedback! What are you missing?

[@imhereforthepopcorn]

Can you Do a video for principal axes and maximum likelihood?

[@datatab]

thank you for your feedback! I write it down but can not promise, there are so many topics : )

[@aldominicgatlabayan6925]

Can i have only one factor?

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Hi, thank you very much! It reminded me a lot about multicolinearity in linear regression, are they related somehow?

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quite useful

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Glad you think so!

[@simplyram2676]

Nice....Thank you so much..How many respondents are needed to do this EFA? Is there any literature to support this? Im planning to do pilot test on factors that affect staff retention.But for sure, its a lot.So, I would like to lessen the factors.Thank you in advance

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Many thanks. Unfortunately, I can not answer that right away! I would also have to do a literature search. Sorry!!!

[@paolapozzolo3958]

I appreciate the simplification but EFA and PCA are two different tecniques based on different extraction methods. The data used as example require EFA but your procedure is about PCA....

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Many thanks for your feedback!!! I will have a closer look at it!!!

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thank you

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[@youexpire]

what you talked about was principal component analysis instead of factor analysis.

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I have so many questions that I can’t even choose the first one lol

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thanks for the video. this is mostly PCA , rather than factor analysis. they are different.

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This is FA not PCA !

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