著者

小笠原 春彦 OGASAWARA Haruhiko

出版者

The Behaviormetric Society of Japan

雑誌

行動計量学 (ISSN:03855481)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.23, no.2, pp.122-129, 1996

被引用文献数

7

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The varimax rotation, a special case of the orthomax method, usually contains the process of normalization by the communalities of manifest variables. After rotation, factor loadings are re-scaled so that the communalities have original values. Although the standard errors of rotated factor-loadings have been discussed from the general view point of estimation of parameters with restrictions, the actual standard errors for normalized rotation have not been provided. In this paper a method of estimating the asymptotic standard errors in the normalized orthomax rotation is given. Two artificial examples are provided in which standard errors become extremely large with or without normalization.