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Practical Considerations for Using Exploratory Factor Analysis in Educational Research.

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Structural Equation Modeling With Mplus: Basic Concepts, Applications, And Programming

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Structural equation modeling with AMOS: basic concepts, applications, and programming

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Best Practices in Exploratory Factor Analysis: Four Recommendations for Getting the Most from Your Analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors collect, in one article, information that will allow researchers and practitioners to understand the various choices available through popular software packages, and to make decisions about "best practices" in exploratory factor analysis.
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Evaluating the use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research.

TL;DR: This paper reviewed the major design and analytical decisions that must be made when conducting exploratory factor analysis and notes that each of these decisions has important consequences for the obtained results, and the implications of these practices for psychological research are discussed.