What is a factor loading in the context of factor analysis?
- The correlation between a factor and a variable
- The difference between a factor and a variable
- The percentage of variance in a variable explained by a factor
- The ratio between a factor and a variable
Factor loadings are the correlation coefficients between the factors and the variables. It is a measure of how much the variable is "explained" by the factor.
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