TY - JOUR
AU - Stroud, Clyde P.
AB - An Application of Factor Analysis to the Systematics of Kalotermes CLYDE P. STROUD ULTIPLE factor analysis, as devel- models, and in that there have not been oped chiefly by Thurstone (1931, developed, as yet, adequate methods of es- 1945a), is a general method which can be tablishing degree of confidence in the find- adapted to a wide variety of problems. ings obtained. Discoveries made by mul- Like other forms of multivariate analysis tiple factor analysis could be related to it constitutes a method for the examina- statements of reliability in either of two ways. In some cases findings could be tion of complex sets of phenomena, ex- pressed either in terms of experimental or subjected after discovery to more refined statistical techniques which can establish nonexperimental data, in an attempt to ac- reliabilities. It is also possible that in count for most of the variance of the ob- many applications, assumptions basic to served values in terms of a restricted num- statistics could be made at the outset and ber of underlying parameters, factors, or appropriate sampling error criteria ap- explanatory concepts. It is particularly plied. It is hoped that a further relation useful as an exploratory method for 
TI - An Application of Factor Analysis to the Systematics of Kalotermes
JF - Systematic Biology
DO - 10.2307/sysbio/2.2.76
DA - 1953-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/an-application-of-factor-analysis-to-the-systematics-of-kalotermes-UCEm01Xyb9
SP - 76
EP - 92
VL - 2
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -