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(1863–1945; b. London, England; d. London, England)

English psychologist who introduced the use of statistical methods into psychology. Spearman's initial choice of career was the...

A matrix representing the relative frequencies with which each of a number of stimuli is mistaken for each of the others by a person in a task requiring recognition or identification of...

A fundamental factor (2) of human intelligence, derived from factor analysis, corresponding roughly to verbal intelligence, consisting of the knowledge and expertise accumulated over a...

The components (latent roots) derived from the data which represent that variation in the original data accounted for by each new component or axis.

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The validity of a test determined by its correlation with a factor (2) determined by factor analysis. The idea behind this form of validity was introduced by the English statistician and...

A fundamental factor (2) of human intelligence, derived from factor analysis, corresponding roughly to non-verbal reasoning, requiring rapid understanding of novel relationships, measured...

In factor analysis, a factor (2) that accounts for the intercorrelations between a subset of the variables but not all of them.

In statistics, a pattern of data obtained from multifactorial analysis of variance (ANOVA) or log-linear analysis in which the effect of an independent variable or factor (1) varies across...

(1887–1955; b. Chicago, IL; d. Chapel Hill, TN)

American psychometrician. Thurstone graduated from Cornell U with a BS in electrical engineering in 1912. This led to employment...

The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, a popular personality scale that consists of 185 questions, such as ‘I get frustrated when people take too long to explain something’, each...