单词 | communality |
释义 | communalityn. 1. Communal state or condition; solidarity. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > [noun] > a community > communal state communality1886 1886 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 7 502 These conquerors were the so-called pile-villagers, who..lived in communality, enjoyed a provincial constitution, and knew something of law. 1902 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1901 App. ii. 76 In such manner as to strengthen sentiments of communality and to keep alive the sense of community in interests. 1969 M. Bragg Hired Man (1972) ii. xix. 204 He knew that all of them had equal troubles, all were in the same danger—and this communality alone restrained him. 1996 Glasgow Herald 31 May 12/2 This should be an age for internationalism, for bridge-building and communality and integration as the nation states crumble. 2. Statistics. In factor analysis: the proportion of the variance of a variable which is attributable to common factors shared with other variables, the remainder being attributable to specific factors and error terms. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > distribution > variability or spread > measures of > relating to variance heteroscedasticity1905 homoscedasticity1905 covariance1931 communality1933 principal component1933 1933 L. L. Thurstone Theory of Multiple Factors i. 8 The communality is the variance of a test with both the error factor and the specific factor eliminated. 1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 982/2 The highest correlation of each variable, from among its correlations with all other variables in the matrix, was taken as an estimate of communality. 2008 G. Julnes in G. J. Miller & K. Young Handbk. Res. Methods Public Admin. (ed. 2) xxx. 535 Our Resource Mothers Program example deliberately includes two variables with somewhat low communalities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1886 |
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