Factor analysis for non-normal variables

DOI10.1007/BF02294108zbMath0609.62096MaRDI QIDQ1086951

Ab Mooijaart

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

bootstrapfactor analysismultivariate normal distributionnonnormalityfactor loadingsnormality assumptionbest generalized least squares estimateshigher order cross-products

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25)

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Uses Software

• LISREL

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