Kogan, L. S. (1955). Review of Introduction to factor analysis. [Review of the book Introduction to factor analysis. B. Fruchter]. Psychological Bulletin, 52(1), 99-100.
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Reviews "Introduction to factor analysis," by Benjamin Fruchter (see record 1954-08313-000). Unlike a number of other books dealing with factor analytic techniques, this one is elementary, eclectic, and relatively nonemotional. It should serve well to help bridge the gap between the mathematical naivete and the matrical sophistication demanded by most modern presentations. Step-by-step factor extraction examples are worked out for cluster analysis, and the diagonal, centroid, multiple-group, and principal-axes methods. Schemes for rotation to orthogonal or oblique axes are described in detail. The fact that the book is largely a manual of computational mechanics is emphasized by a five-page chapter on interpretation of factors and the relative paucity of material on choice of method. This imbalance is, however, somewhat remedied by a chapter on applications of factor analysis in the literature which illustrates the utility of factor analysis as a research tool. This book is geared to a first course but should also be useful for self-instruction within the limitation that rotation is the aspect of factor analysis, which is the most difficult to teach and the most difficult to learn. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)