single factor

collocation in English

meaningsofsingleandfactor

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single
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/
us
/ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/
one ...
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factor
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfæk.tər/
us
/ˈfæk.tɚ/
a fact or situation that influences the result ...
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(Definition ofsingleandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsingle factor

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Their factor analysis produces asinglefactor.
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In fact, not asinglefactoramong capital, directors, technology, or resources could exclusively explain it.
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Nosinglefactoris likely to be the sole determinant of success or failure.
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The analysis yielded asinglefactorthat explained 55% of the variance in the data.
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Nor should analysts assume that small differences in asinglefactorcan be ignored.
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But thesinglefactormeasures can also have unintuitive implications when input substitution is possible.
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Yet the analysis helps to demonstrate the direction and extent of asinglefactor.
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Nosinglefactoris clearly implicated as the reason to explain these discrepancies in findings.
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When tasks were used for analysis, asinglefactoraccounted for 78.4% of the common variance.
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In psychometric terms, trust in physicians has a strongsinglefactorconstruct.
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The utilized social support subscales produced asinglefactorwith an eigenvalue of 4.48 accounting for 49.8 % of the variance.
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When the three highly correlated items are forced into asinglefactor, the specific portions tend to increase.
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In a factor analysis of a larger number of questions dealing with race, these four items comprised asinglefactor.
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Nosinglefactoraccounted for the infant preference at the ages (6, 9, and12 weeks) that we studied.
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All of the subscales had high loadings on asinglefactorwhen subject to an oblique factor analysis.
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This process is crucial to successful reproduction, and it may be there is not asinglefactor.
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At each stage of followup, for each type of factor, asinglefactorsolution was fitted using maximum likelihood.
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The satisfaction with support subscales produced asinglefactorwith an eigenvalue of 4.12 accounting for 51.5 % of the variance.
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Therefore, we grouped states, activities, and accomplishments together as asinglefactorand semelfactives and achievements in another.
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Still, a broad-brush assessment of the composite index seemed to identify losers and winners better than anysinglefactor.
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Similarly, after factor analyzing all phonological processing skills, we found that they formed asinglefactoracross cultures.
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Recent theory posits that adaptive or maladaptive outcomes for high risk populations cannot be predicted from anysinglefactor.
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