EFAtools: An R package with fast and flexible implementations of exploratory factor analysis tools
serverSteiner, Grieder · 2020 · Journal of Open Source Software
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The paper
Steiner & Grieder (2020). EFAtools: An R package with fast and flexible implementations of exploratory factor analysis tools. Journal of Open Source Software. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02521
- Contribution
- software paper
- Data basis
- none
- Document
- short communication
- Review stage
- peer reviewed
- Disciplines
- psychometrics, statistics
- Access
- open
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- cranEFAtoolsGPL-3.0-onlyby Markus Steiner, Silvia Steinerofficialruns here
What it can do
- N factors
n_factorsHow many factors to retain, by every criterion asked for, side by side.
- Efa
efaExploratory factor analysis: loadings, communalities, factor correlations and fit.
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