The Importance of Data Cleaning

If this is not the first book or article by the first author that you have come across, you might know that he has been a constant (perhaps tiresome) advocate of the argument that data is not ready to analyze until it is clean and missing data has been dealt with. In fact, he wrote an entire book about all the different—legitimate—things a researcher can do to improve the quality of their data and the results that come from analysis of those data.
Exploratory factor analysis is no exception, but there are different issues, and different priorities when dealing with EFA. Residuals, a common tool used to identify outliers in inferential statistics, contradict the exploratory nature of EFA[1] and thus they cannot ...

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