Factor Analysis Centennial Conference

来自NSF的资金将支持一个特殊场合的会议，“因素分析100：历史发展和未来方向。这次会议标志着查尔斯·斯皮尔曼在《美国心理学杂志》上发表了具有开创性和里程碑意义的文章《一般智力，客观确定和测量》100周年，这篇文章概述了一种新的统计工具的框架，以支持他关于智力的心理学理论。 统计方法采用因子分析。 自引入以来的99年里，因素分析已经成为心理科学发展的一部分，就像研究人类行为的任何方法或程序一样。 今天，因子分析及其各种扩展和概括的方法论研究和发展仍在继续，这些方法在心理学和其他科学的许多领域的实质性研究中发挥着关键作用。 会议的总体目标是研究因子分析的理论、方法和应用的历史、现状和重要问题，以及未来的发展方向。 通过这次考试，我们希望澄清的艺术和未来的研究方向的状态，并促进和提高质量的持续研究方面的方法和应用。 这些目标将通过聚集该领域最杰出的研究人员沿着与观众的科学家和学生有特殊兴趣了解更多关于该领域和进行的发展和正确使用因素分析和相关方法来实现。 NSF提供的大部分资金将用于促进和支持研究生、大学教师和对因子分析理论和应用感兴趣的研究人员出席和参与会议。

Funding from NSF will support a special occasion conference, "Factor Analysis at 100: Historical Developments and Future Directions." The conference marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Charles Spearman's seminal and monumental article, "General Intelligence, Objectively Determined and Measured," in the American Journal of Psychology, which outlined the framework of a new statistical tool in support of his psychological theory about intelligence. The statistical method was factor analysis. In the 99 years since it was introduced, factor analysis has become as integral to the development of psychological science as any method or procedure used in the study of human behavior. Vigorous methodological research and development continues today on factor analysis and its various extensions and generalizations, and these methods serve a critical role in substantive research in many areas of psychology as well as other sciences. The overarching objective of the conference is to examine the history, current state and significant issues, and future directions of the theory, methodology and application of factor analysis. Through this examination, we hope to clarify the state of the art and future directions of research, and to facilitate and enhance the quality of continued research with respect to both methodology and application. These objectives will be achieved by gathering together the most prominent researchers in the field along with an audience of scientists and students with a special interest in learning more about the field and carrying on the development and proper use of factor analysis and related methods. The bulk of the funding provided by NSF will be used to promote and support attendance and participation at the conference by graduate students, university faculty, and researchers with an interest in the theory and application of factor analysis.