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specific variance

specific variance

in factor analysis, the systematic variability that is specific to a particular variable and not shared with other variables. Specific variance contrasts with communality, the variability that a single variable shares with one or more of the other variables in the analysis, and random error, the unsystematic variability specific to a particular variable.

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