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A researcher develops a new instrument for measuring adjustment to widowhood in dependents whose spouses were killed in armed conflict.
 
  The researcher's initial instrument contains 55 items, and he wants to trim these down to 25 or 30 but doesn't want to lose any of the main concepts. What method of statistical analysis will the researcher use, in order to pare this tool down to a manageable size without loss of content?
  a. Kendall's tau
  b. Spearman's rho
  c. Linear regression analysis
  d. Factor analysis
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