A proposed expert system for selecting exploratory factor analysis procedures

Abstract EN

Modeling the selection of the appropriate exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is one very important area of expertise that did not attract any attention from researchers interested in the applications of expert systems (ES) technology, this probably due to the complex and highly demanding nature of the (EFA) procedure selection problem.

Developing a methodology for modeling the (EFA) procedure selection problem and building a prototype expert system to help novice and experienced researchers is one important aim of this research.

Another goal of this research is to examine the appropriateness of ES as a supporting development paradigm for modeling such a complex process.

A methodology was developed as well as a prototype expert system.

The system was tested and the results obtained were vety encouraging.