Let me be upfront: this post will contain statistics. Not the fun, pithy kind like “60 percent of statistics are made up on the spot,” but actual cold, hard statistical practices. Joking aside, I’m ...

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A new approach for exploratory factor analysis (EFA) of data matrices with more variables p than observations n is presented. First, the classic EFA model (n > p) is considered as a specific data ...