Kaiser Criterion

Factor Analysis - Practical Implementation - Criteria For Determining The Number of Factors
... For instance, the Kaiser criterion may suggest five factors and the scree test may suggest two, so the researcher may request 3-, 4-, and 5-factor solutions ... Comprehensibility A purely subjective criterion would be to retain those factors whose meaning is comprehensible to the researcher ... Kaiser criterion The Kaiser rule is to drop all components with eigenvalues under 1.0 – this being the eigenvalue equal to the information accounted for by an average single item ...