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Since the method depends on the inter-item correlations, anything that produces correlated items will be interpreted as a factor, and therefore caution should be exercised when interpreting factor structures as substantive dimensions [ 6].
And that comes from blending negatively correlated items.
In the clustering phase, our system first explores the velocity to discover correlated items, which are usually tried on or buy together, e.g., when people buys pasta, they also want to buy tomato, and if they need a dress, they also consider about the high-heeled shoes.
Otherwise, the assignment of equal weights will overweight correlated items and underweight independent items.
Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to condense and group highly correlated items together to create a new composite factor that represented each group of items.
Though highly correlated items may make a scale overlong with the possibility of over-emphasizing some aspects, items that are too similar may be redundant [ 69].
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Anchor items are also chosen, with good justification, as having higher point-biserial correlations (and it would make little sense to use poorly correlating items as anchors).
A factor analysis with varimax rotation was performed in order to find subsets of highly correlating items of the questionnaires.
For the reduced scale, inter-item correlations were assessed to ensure items correlated more with items within the same component than with items in other components.
In the 2PL condition, item usage was positively correlated with item discrimination (r =.46, p <.01), reflecting the fact that CAT-bases item selection on item discrimination.
We correlated the items with the dimensions.
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