Examples and Case Histories

In this chapter, we present applications of the methods we have taken up in this book. We want you to appreciate right at the outset that we have not tried to cover all facets of factor analysis in the natural sciences, our aim being to give you samples of what various specialists have done when faced with particular problems requiring some kind of factor analysis in their solution. Many more applications occur in the literature and it is expected that, armed with the knowledge imparted to you by our book, you will be able to avail yourselves of special slants devised in answer to special problems.