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488 Analyzing Principal Components <strong>and</strong> Reducing Dimensionality Chapter 19<br />

Platform Options<br />

Figure 19.5 Factor Analysis Report<br />

Note that the first factor loads on the Carbon Tetrachloride-Chloroform-Benzene-Hexane cluster <strong>and</strong> that<br />

the second factor loads on the Ether–1-octanol cluster.<br />

Rotation <strong>Methods</strong><br />

Rotations are used to better align the directions of the factors with the original variables so that the factors<br />

may be more interpretable. You hope for clusters of variables that are highly correlated to define the rotated<br />

factors.<br />

After the initial extraction, the factors are uncorrelated with each other. If the factors are rotated by an<br />

orthogonal transformation, the rotated factors are also uncorrelated. If the factors are rotated by an oblique<br />

transformation, the rotated factors become correlated. Oblique rotations often produce more useful patterns

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