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Factor Scores and oblimin rotation

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Subject: Factor Scores and oblimin rotation
From: "Michael Conklin" <mconklin@customresearch.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:02:09 -0500
Dear List:

When I use the factanal procedure with an oblique rotation
(specifically oblimin), the output shows a correlation matrix between
the factors.  However, if I extract the factor scores from the object
and run a correlation matrix on the scores, they have a different (and
much higher) level of correlation.  Can anyone tell me why this is so? 
I am using SPlus 2000 on Windows NT.

Thanks,

Michael Conklin

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