The application of factor analysis to media exposure data has become a tradition in the marketing literature. However, a major difficulty has been to account explicitly for prior knowledge of the medium as part of the factor analytic procedure. The authors demonstrate how prior knowledge can be used in a way that increases interpretability and reliability of factor results.
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