A Nurse Researcher Would Opt to Use Factor Analysis in Which

question 6

Multiple Choice

A nurse researcher would opt to use factor analysis in which case?

• A) To control statistically for a variable and measure differences among group means
• B) To take a large number of variables and group them into a smaller number of factors
• C) To test the relationship between two variables measured at interval or ratio level data
• D) To measure the relationship between one outcome or dependent variable and several dependent variables

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