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The formula for coefficient alpha for a principal component, first derived in 1957 by Kaiser, is developed. Its use in the Kaiser-Guttman Rule for the number of components is discussed, both in theory and in practice, with Hotelling's (1933) original correlation matrix.
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Henry F. Kaiser (1991) studied this question.
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