The factors are orthogonal. Why would one merge uncorrelated dimensions? Well, one may, explicitly declaring "I'm going to make a battery construct, i.e. statistically not warranted".
But a better solution would be to extract less factors.
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Kirill Orlov
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Original Message:
Sent: Sun March 24, 2024 09:45 AM
From: faiz abdelhafid
Subject: Factor Analysis
Dear all,
I am working on survey design. I performed the factor analysis with the varimax rotation, which returned nine factors for it.
My question is: can I reduce some of the factors that contain just 3 or 4 items by merging them together?
Thank you
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faiz abdelhafid
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