R: 8 cognitive variables used by Dwyer for an example.

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## 8 cognitive variables used by Dwyer for an example.

### Description

Dwyer (1937) introduced a technique for factor extension and used 8 cognitive variables from Thurstone. This is the example data set used in his paper.

### Usage

    data(Dwyer)

### Format

The format is: num [1:8, 1:8] 1 0.58 -0.28 0.01 0.36 0.38 0.61 0.15 0.58 1 ... - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 ..$ : chr [1:8] "V1" "V2" "V3" "V4" ... ..$ : chr [1:8] "V1" "V2" "V3" "V4" ...

### Source

Data matrix retyped from the original publication.

### References

Dwyer, Paul S. (1937), The determination of the factor loadings of a given test from the known factor loadings of other tests. Psychometrika, 3, 173-178

### Examples

    data(Dwyer)
    Ro <- Dwyer[1:7,1:7]
    Roe <- Dwyer[1:7,8]
    fo <- fa(Ro,2,rotate="none")
    fa.extension(Roe,fo)

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