Exploratory Factor Analysis

About Holmes FinchW. Holmes Finch

W. Holmes Finch (Ph.D. South Carolina) is the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology in the Department of Educational Psychology at Ball State University. Prior to coming to Ball State he worked as a consultant in the Statistics Department at the University of South Carolina for 12 years advising faculty and graduate students on the appropriate statistical methods for their research. Dr. Finch teaches courses in statistical and research methodology as well as psychometrics and educational measurement. His research interests involve issues in psychometrics including dimensionality assessment differential item functioning generalizability theory and unfolding models. In addition he pursues research in multivariate statistics particularly those involving nonparametric techniques. He is the co-author of Multilevel Modeling Using R (with Holden J.E. & Kelley K. CRC Press 2014); Applied Psychometrics Using SAS (with French B.F. & Immekus J. Information Age 2014); and Latent Variable Models in R (with French B.F. Routledge 2015).