Cattell's scree test is one of most simple ways of testing the number of components or factors in a correlation matrix. Here we plot the eigen values of a correlation matrix as well as the eigen values of a factor analysis.
scree(rx,factors=TRUE,pc=TRUE,main="Scree plot",hline=NULL,add=FALSE)
VSS.scree(rx, main = "scree plot")a correlation matrix or a data matrix. If data, then correlations are found using pairwise deletions.
If true, draw the scree for factors
If true, draw the scree for components
if null, draw a horizontal line at 1, otherwise draw it at hline (make negative to not draw it)
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Should multiple plots be drawn?
Among the many ways to choose the optimal number of factors is the scree test. A better function to show the scree as well as compare it to randomly parallel solutions is found found in fa.parallel
# NOT RUN {
scree(attitude)
#VSS.scree(cor(attitude)
# }
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