Table 5.
Differences in Varimax criterion between GPR-Varimax and SPSS-Varimax component rotation for double-optimum simple structure.
| 25 iterations |
250 iterations |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPR start | No | With | No | With | ||
| k | N | loadings | Kaiser | Kaiser | Kaiser | Kaiser |
| 3 | 100 | Unrotated | — | — | — | — |
| Random 1 | — | — | — | — | ||
| Random 10 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 300 | Unrotated | — | — | — | — | |
| Random 1 | — | — | — | — | ||
| Random 10 | — | 0.0001 | — | — | ||
| 6 | 100 | Unrotated | — | — | — | — |
| Random 1 | — | — | — | — | ||
| Random 10 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 300 | Unrotated | — | — | — | — | |
| Random 1 | — | — | — | — | ||
| Random 10 | — | 0.0001 | — | 0.0001 | ||
| 9 | 100 | Unrotated | — | — | — | — |
| Random 1 | — | — | — | — | ||
| Random 10 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 300 | Unrotated | — | — | — | — | |
| Random 1 | — | — | — | — | ||
| Random 10 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 12 | 100 | Unrotated | — | — | — | — |
| Random 1 | — | — | — | — | ||
| Random 10 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 300 | Unrotated | — | — | — | — | |
| Random 1 | — | — | — | — | ||
| Random 10 | — | — | — | — | ||
GPR, gradient-projection based rotation. k, number of components. With Kaiser, loadings were Kaiser normalized before rotation. No Kaiser, non-normalized loadings. Differences refer to the mean Varimax criterion of 1,000 samples and were computed as GPR-mean – SPSS-mean. Differences of |Δ|≥ 0.0001 are reported, otherwise results are considered equal (“—”). A positive sign means that GPR-Varimax was better than SPSS-Varimax and vice versa.