The amount of variance a variable shares with all other variables included in the factor analysis is referred to as ________.
A) total variance
B) communality
C) shared variance
D) percentage of variance

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Communality is the amount of variance a variable shares with all other variables included in the factor analysis. It represents the common variance among variables and ranges from 0 to 1, with higher values indicating that the variable can be explained well by the other variables in the analysis. Total variance refers to the overall variability in the dataset, shared variance refers to the overlap in variation between two variables, and percentage of variance is a measure of how much variation a particular variable accounts for in the dataset.

The Amount of Variance a Variable Shares with All Other