Description

Henry Kaiser (1970) introduced an Measure of Sampling Adequacy (MSA) of factor analytic data matrices. Kaiser and Rice (1974) then modified it. This is just a function of the squared elements of the ‘image’ matrix compared to the squares of the original correlations. The overall MSA as well as estimates for each item are found. The index is known as the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) index.

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Details

Let S^2 = diag(R^{-1})^{-1} and Q = SR^{-1}S. Then Q is said to be the anti-image intercorrelation matrix. Let sumr2 = ∑{R^2} and sumq2 = ∑{Q^2} for all off diagonal elements of R and Q, then SMA=sumr2/(sumr2 + sumq2). Although originally MSA was 1 - sumq2/sumr2 (Kaiser, 1970), this was modified in Kaiser and Rice, (1974) to be SMA=sumr2/(sumr2 + sumq2). This is the formula used by Dziuban and Shirkey (1974) and by SPSS.

In his delightfully flamboyant style, Kaiser (1975) suggested that KMO > .9 were marvelous, in the .80s, mertitourious, in the .70s, middling, in the .60s, medicore, in the 50s, miserable, and less than .5, unacceptable.

An alternative measure of whether the matrix is factorable is the Bartlett test cortest.bartlett which tests the degree that the matrix deviates from an identity matrix.

Value

• MSA The overall Measure of Sampling Adequacy

• MSAi The measure of sampling adequacy for each item itemImage The Image correlation matrix (Q)

Author(s)

William Revelle

References

H.~F. Kaiser. (1970) A second generation little jiffy. Psychometrika, 35(4):401–415.

H.~F. Kaiser and J.~Rice. (1974) Little jiffy, mark iv. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 34(1):111–117.

H.F. Kaiser. 1974) An index of factor simplicity. Psychometrika, 39 (1) 31-36.

Dziuban, Charles D. and Shirkey, Edwin C. (1974) When is a correlation matrix appropriate for factor analysis? Some decision rules. Psychological Bulletin, 81 (6) 358 - 361.

See Also

See Also as fa, cortest.bartlett, Harman.political.

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