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second-order factors  

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  • factors obtained in factor analysis from factor analysing the results of an oblique factor rotation which allows the factors to correlate. The correlation matrix of the factors can then be factor analysed to give new factors which are factors of factors. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Statistics; second-order factors]

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