Dandelion plot: a method for the visualization of R-mode exploratory factor analyses

Manukyan A., ÇENE E., Sedef A., DEMİR İ.

COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS, cilt.29, sa.6, ss.1769-1791, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 29 Sayı: 6
  • Basım Tarihi: 2014
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s00180-014-0518-x
  • Dergi Adı: COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1769-1791
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: EFA, Data visualization, R-mode methods, COMMON FACTOR-ANALYSIS, COMPONENT ANALYSIS, NUMBER, PEOPLE, MATRIX, RULES, SPSS
  • Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

One of the important aspects of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is to discover underlying structures in real life problems. Especially, R-mode methods of EFA aim to investigate the relationship between variables. Visualizing an efficient EFA model is as important as obtaining one. A good graph of an EFA should be simple, informative and easy to interpret. A few number of visualization methods exist. Dandelion plot, a novel method of visualization for R-mode EFA, is used in this study, providing a more effective representation of factors. With this method, factor variances and factor loadings can be plotted on a single window. The representation of both positivity and negativity among factor loadings is another strength of the method.