FactorExtractionMethod Enumeration

Enumarates the possible ways to extract factors in a factor analysis.

Definition

Namespace: Extreme.Statistics.Multivariate
Assembly: Extreme.Numerics (in Extreme.Numerics.dll) Version: 8.1.23

public enum FactorExtractionMethod

Visual Basic

Public Enumeration FactorExtractionMethod

C++/CLI

public enum class FactorExtractionMethod

type FactorExtractionMethod

PrincipalComponents	0	Use the principal components as factors.
IterativePrincipalAxis	1	Use an iterative procedure that computes factors based on an estimate for the communalities.
UnweightedLeastSquares	2	Find the factors that minimize the squared difference between the original and the reconstructed correlation matrix.
GeneralizedLeastSquares	3	Find the factors that minimize the weighted squared difference between the original and the reconstructed correlation matrix.
MaximumLikelihood	4	Find the factors that maximize the likelihood of producing the correlation matrix.
AlphaFactoring	5	Maximize the alpha-reliability of the factors.
ImageFactoring	6	Use a method where the common part of a variable is defined as its linear regression with respect to the other variables.