单词 | varimax |
释义 | varimaxn. Statistics. A method of factor analysis in which uncorrelated factors are sought by a rotation (rotation n. 8) that maximizes the variance of the factor loadings. Usually attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > factor analysis factorial analysis1845 factor analysis1928 varimax1956 1956 H. F. Kaiser (title of Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of California) The varimax method of factor analysis. 1958 H. F. Kaiser in Psychometrika XXIII. 187 Dr. John Caffrey suggested the name varimax. 1969 Language 45 89 The purpose of the varimax rotation was to focus these indices on possible natural groupings of the words according to their positional characteristics. 1974 R. L. Gorsuch Factor Anal. x. 193 Varimax is available on virtually every computer which has any programs for factor analysis. 1977 M. Mac Gréil Prejudice & Tolerance in Ireland xv. 467 Factor No. 3 ‘Republican Political’..: The high varimax loadings of the four categories which constitute this cluster is akin to that of the racial cluster in Factor 1. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1956 |
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