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Percentage of Variance Criterion

A technique used in hard sciences and in social sciences where the criterion is the cumulative percentages of the variance extracted by successive factors. In the hard sciences, the factoring procedure is usually stopped when the extracted factors account for at least 95 percent of the variance. In the social sciences, the factoring procedure is usually stopped when the extracted factors account for at least 60 percent of the total variance.

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