Keywords and phrases: student’s academic performance, factor analysis, exploratory factor analysis, female students.
Received: April 13, 2021; Accepted: May 27, 2021; Published: June 26, 2021
How to cite this article: Dalia Alnagar, Randa Alharbi, Alanazi Talal Abdulrahman and Osama Alamri, Analysis of the female student academic performance using an exploratory factor analysis, Advances and Applications in Statistics 69(1) (2021), 41-57. DOI: 10.17654/AS069010041
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