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Social Sciences, Psychology, Multidisciplinary, Psychology, INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES, 3-MODE DATA, ROTATION, Analysis of Variance, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Humans, Models, Statistical, 1701 Psychology, 1702 Cognitive Sciences, Social Sciences Methods, 4905 Statistics, 5201 Applied and developmental psychology, 5205 Social and personality psychology

Abstract:

Three-way component analysis techniques are designed for descriptive analysis of 3-way data, for example, when data are collected on individuals, in different settings, and on different measures. Such techniques summarize all information in a 3-way data set by summarizing, for each way of the 3-way data set, the associated entities through a few components and describing the relations between these components. In this article, 3-mode principal components analysis is described at an elementary level. Guidance is given concerning the choices to be made in each step of the process of analyzing 3-way data by this technique. The complete process is illustrated with a detailed description of the analysis of an empirical 3-way data set.