Comparison of five rules for determining the number of components to retain.

1986/05/01 by William R. Zwick, Wayne F. Velicer · 3,032 citations
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paper · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.99.3.432

published in Psychological Bulletin 99(3), 432-442 (American Psychological Association)

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