The goal of this book
is to be a friendly, practical, applied overview of best practices
in EFA, with applications to SAS. In the coming chapters, we will
explore various aspects of EFA, and the best practices at each step.
We will skip the matrix algebra and equations as much as possible.
If you are seeking a more mathematical tome on the subject, there
are many good ones already available.
Throughout the book,
we describe and explain the SAS procedures for each analysis. We also
review key syntax for our example analyses. The complete syntax for
all of the analyses conducted throughout the book, the data sets that
are used, and the solutions to exercises are available on the author’s
page at
http://support.sas.com/publishing/authors.