KMO: Find the Kaiser, Meyer, Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy

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Find the Kaiser, Meyer, Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy

Description

Henry Kaiser (1970) introduced an Measure of Sampling Adequacy (MSA) of factor analytic data matrices. Kaiser and Rice (1974) then modified it. This is just a function of the squared elements of the ‘anti-image’ matrix compared to the squares of the original correlations. The overall MSA as well as estimates for each item are found. The index is known as the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) index.

Usage

KMO(r)

Arguments

r	A correlation matrix or a data matrix (correlations will be found)

Details

Let S^2 = diag(R^{-1})^{-1} and Q = SR^{-1}S. Then Q is said to be the anti-image intercorrelation matrix. Let sumr^2 = \sum{R^2} and sumq^2 = \sum{Q^2} for all off diagonal elements of R and Q, then SMA=sumr^2/(sumr^2 + sumq^2). Although originally MSA was 1 - sumq^2/sumr^2 (Kaiser, 1970), this was modified in Kaiser and Rice, (1974) to be SMA=sumr^2/(sumr^2 + sumq^2). This is the formula used by Dziuban and Shirkey (1974) and by SPSS.

In his delightfully flamboyant style, Kaiser (1975) suggested that KMO > .9 were marvelous, in the .80s, mertitourious, in the .70s, middling, in the .60s, medicore, in the 50s, miserable, and less than .5, unacceptable.

An alternative measure of whether the matrix is factorable is the Bartlett test cortest.bartlett which tests the degree that the matrix deviates from an identity matrix.

Note that except for the reversal of signs, the anti-image correlation matrix is the same as that returned by partial.r.

Value

• MSA: The overall Measure of Sampling Adequacy

• MSAi: The measure of sampling adequacy for each item

• Image: The anti-image correlation matrix (Q)

Author(s)

William Revelle

References

H.~F. Kaiser. (1970) A second generation little jiffy. Psychometrika, 35(4):401–415.

H.~F. Kaiser and J.~Rice. (1974) Little jiffy, mark iv. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 34(1):111–117.

H.F. Kaiser. 1974) An index of factor simplicity. Psychometrika, 39 (1) 31-36.

Dziuban, Charles D. and Shirkey, Edwin C. (1974) When is a correlation matrix appropriate for factor analysis? Some decision rules. Psychological Bulletin, 81 (6) 358 - 361.

See Also

See Also as fa, cortest.bartlett, Harman.political, partial.r

Examples

KMO(Thurstone)
k.m <- KMO(Harman.political)   #compare to the results in Dziuban and Shirkey (1974)
k.m
lowerMat(k.m$Image)
lowerMat(partial.r(Harman.political))   #identical to image, except for sign

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