Mr. Stover called the survey questions loaded and noted that less than 20percentt of doctors who received the survey had responded to it.
For both BHS and LHS the bifactor analyses supported the assumption of a strong general factor, with all questions loading highly on the general factor.
In addition, we evaluated the reliability of the questions loading onto each component with Cronbach's Alpha test of internal consistency.
In our sample these questions loaded on to a single component in a principal components analysis of eight questions from the original scale (21) This measure was previously linked to depression in our study (21).
Analysis of data collected at 12, 18, 24 and 30 months post-recruitment indicated that both the Worry and Information-support factors were stable over time, and that there was no difference in factor structure between trial arms, i.e. the same questions loaded onto the same factors (data not shown).
As in many other studies (Gmel et al., 2000; Room and Hradilova Selin, 2004; Wicki et al., 2009) where factor analysis has been used to construct indexes for social alcohol-related problems, most questions loaded strongly on the first factor, with an eigenvalue of 3.82.
Several relevant metrics are computed on a quarterly basis, such as the average daily question load per librarian, average time from question to response, and distribution of question types and sources of evidence returned.
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A further four questions had to be removed because of cross-loadings ('I felt that the staff were in control'; 'The staff seemed calm throughout'), low-loadings ('The staff did not panic') or because it was the only question loading on a factor ('Each member of staff introduced themselves').
"Why are you going to beat the Patriots?" another reporter asked, the question loaded with presumption.
