| Criteria for the Rotation |
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| q | Basically, the criteria of rotating EOFs is to measure the |
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| “simplicity” of the EOF structure. |
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| q | Basically, simplicity of structure is supposed to occur |
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| when most of the elements of the eigenvector are either of |
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| order one (absolute value) or zero, but not in between. |
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| q | There are two popular rotation criteria: |
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| (1) | Quartimax Rotation |
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| (2) | Varimax Rotation |
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