Verkuilen, Jay wrote:
(Aside: PF is an antiquated method that belongs on the dustbin of
history as far as I am concerned.)
  
So what are you advocating instead? ML, which isn't very robust to 
weirdness (technical term) in the data? Or something other than FA/PCA?
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UB Department of Family Medicine / Primary Care Research Institute
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