S2E21: Yes, Virginia... There ARE Latent Variables
Quantitude
The Importance of Defining Reality
A factor is nothing more than a placeholder for the co-variation among a set of variables. The fact that a variety of things co-variate doesn't mean it's not useful, he says. "No idea is simple when you need to plant it in somebody else's mind"
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