Mark Pilling's contribution to the Discussion of ‘Vintage Factor Analysis with Varimax Performs Statistical Inference’ by Rohe & Zeng
Mark Pilling 对《采用 Varimax 的传统因子分析可进行统计推断》的讨论
Thanks to the authors for their very interesting, thoughtful, and thorough reconsideration of the topic of factor analysis. We know to be a weakness of factor analysis that an issue is that analysts must chose the type of rotation (e.g., SPSS lists Varimax, Direct Oblimin, Quartimax, Equamax, & Promax) to use, and this choice tends to be subjectively based on how useful or interpretable the rotation was in the context of the study. So multiple rotations might be considered.…