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On Factors and Factor Scores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Chester W. Harris
Chester W. Harris*
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University of Wisconsin
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Psychometrika , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , December 1967 , pp. 363 - 379
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Copyright © 1967 The Psychometric Society

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Presidential address delivered at the annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, Washington, D. C., September 4, 1967. This study was supported in part by the United States Office of Education, Cooperative Research Project No. S-192-64.

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