An attractive feature of varimax rotation is that it may retain the variance explained, while reducing the number of factors in the solution as compared to principal components analysis).

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Varimax rotation, a method of orthogonal rotation, does not reduce the number of factors in the solution; it aims to make the loadings within each factor more interpretable by maximizing the variance of the squared loadings of a factor on all the variables. The number of factors is determined before applying the rotation, and the total variance explained remains the same before and after rotation.

An Attractive Feature of Varimax Rotation Is That It May