Computational aspects of the greatest lower bound to the reliability and constrained minimum trace factor analysis

DOI10.1007/BF02293900zbMath0507.62055MaRDI QIDQ1837502

Jos M. F. ten Berge, Tom A. B. Snijders, Frits E. Zegers

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

reliability; positive semidefinite; internal consistency; Gramian matrix; minimal trace; computational aspects; greatest lower bound; Heywood case; communality; constrained minimum trace factor analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62H25: Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis

15A99: Basic linear algebra

15A21: Canonical forms, reductions, classification

62P15: Applications of statistics to psychology

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• Minimum rank and minimum trace of covariance matrices