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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 18.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Methods Med Res. 2007 Apr;16(2):77–102. doi: 10.1177/0962280206070649

Table 2.

Numbers of factors chosen through various selection criteria

Criterion Number of factors

CDI FACES DQOLY
Recommended no. 1 2 3
Maximum-likelihood extraction
 Smallest no. with P-value > 0.05 for test that no. of factors is sufficient 5 8 13
 Minimum AIC 5 9 9
 Minimum BIC 1 2 2
 Maximum LCVa 1 2 3
Principal component extractionb
 Largest no. with eigenvalue > 1 10 8 15
 Largest no. with % of total eigenvalue > 5% 5 4 3
 Largest no. with % of total eigenvalue > 10% 1 1 2
 Smallest no. with cumulative % of total eigenvalue > 70% 10 10 14
 Smallest no. with cumulative % of total eigenvalue > 80% 14 14 8
One-step principal factor extractionb
 Largest no. with eigenvalue > 1 4 4 11
 Largest no. with % of total eigenvalue > 5% 6 6 4
 Largest no. with % of total eigenvalue > 10% 4 2 2
 Smallest no. with cumulative % of total eigenvalue > 70% 4 4 8
 Smallest no. with cumulative % of total eigenvalue > 80% 5 5 11
a

Using 10 folds for CDI and FACES and 15 folds for DQOLY.

b

Applied to the correlation matrix.