Why Would a Nurse Researcher Opt to Use Factor Analysis

question 8

Multiple Choice

Why would a nurse researcher opt to use factor analysis?

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

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