{"id":7918,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/exploratory_factor_analysis_-efa\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:04","slug":"exploratory_factor_analysis_-efa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/exploratory_factor_analysis_-efa\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploratory factor analysis (EFA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A type of factor analysis where the neither the specific number of factors nor the pattern of the zero and non-zero loads are hypothesized in advance of the estimation. &nbsp;EFA is often used to estimate a reasonable description of data in terms of a multiple factor model in situations where no other description is available.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"confirmatory_factor_analysis_-cfa-\">Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)<\/a>, <a href=\"factor_analysis\">Factor analysis<\/a>, <a href=\"factor_loadings\">Factor loadings<\/a>, <a href=\"five_factor_model\">Five Factor model<\/a>, Latent variable modeling<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A type of factor analysis where the neither the specific number of factors nor the pattern of the zero and non-zero loads are hypothesized in advance of the estimation. &nbsp;EFA is often used to estimate a reasonable description of data in terms of a multiple factor model in situations where no other description is available.&nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/exploratory_factor_analysis_-efa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exploratory factor analysis (EFA)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}