Table 3a.

Means and Standard Deviations of Eigenvalue Estimates Across the Parallel Analyses Using Principal Component Analysis with No Rotation

Data Set		Mean (SD)
N	P	Mean	2.5th centile	97.5th centile
First eigenvalue
l	l	1.620 (0.002)	1.438 (0.003)	1.853 (0.007)
m	l	1.295 (0.001)	1.214 (0.001)	1.396 (0.002)
h	l	1.144 (<0.001)	1.105 (0.001)	1.191 (0.001)
l	m	2.244 (0.002)	2.034 (0.003)	2.508 (0.008)
m	m	1.568 (0.001)	1.479 (0.001)	1.676 (0.002)
h	m	1.269 (<0.001)	1.230 (<0.001)	1.316 (0.001)
l	h	3.052 (0.002)	2.807 (0.004)	3.349 (0.004)
m	h	1.894 (0.001)	1.796 (0.002)	2.008 (0.002)
h	h	1.414 (<0.001)	1.374 (0.001)	1.462 (0.001)
Third eigenvalue
l	l	1.264 (0.001)	1.155 (0.002)	1.385 (0.002)
m	l	1.135 (<0.001)	1.081 (0.001)	1.195 (0.002)
h	l	1.068 (<0.001)	1.043 (0.001)	1.096 (0.001)
l	m	1.857 (0.001)	1.723 (0.004)	2.009 (0.002)
m	m	1.408 (<0.001)	1.348 (0.001)	1.474 (0.001)
h	m	1.199 (<0.001)	1.172 (0.001)	1.230 (0.001)
l	h	2.622 (0.002)	2.467 (0.003)	2.791 (0.004)
m	h	1.733 (<0.001)	1.668 (0.001)	1.806 (0.002)
h	h	1.346 (<0.001)	1.318 (<0.001)	1.377 (0.001)
Fifth eigenvalue
l	l	1.021 (0.001)	0.926 (0.002)	1.118 (0.002)
m	l	1.018 (<0.001)	0.972 (0.001)	1.066 (0.001)
h	l	1.012 (<0.001)	0.990 (0.001)	1.036 (0.001)
l	m	1.598 (0.001)	1.487 (0.003)	1.715 (0.002)
m	m	1.298 (<0.001)	1.250 (0.001)	1.352 (0.001)
h	m	1.149 (<0.001)	1.125 (0.001)	1.174 (0.001)
l	h	2.331 (0.001)	2.204 (0.002)	2.469 (0.003)
m	h	1.621 (<0.001)	1.568 (0.001)	1.679 (0.001)
h	h	1.299 (<0.001)	1.275 (<0.001)	1.324 (0.001)

Analyses using 5,000 iterations each, and ten different distributional methods.