The multiple roots phenomenon in maximum likelihood estimation for factor analysis
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Point estimation (62F10) Parametric inference under constraints (62F30) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Estimation in survival analysis and censored data (62N02)
Abstract: Multiple root estimation problems in statistical inference arise in many contexts in the literature. In the context of maximum likelihood estimation, the existence of multiple roots causes uncertainty in the computation of maximum likelihood estimators using hill-climbing algorithms, and consequent difficulties in the resulting statistical inference. In this paper, we study the multiple roots phenomenon in maximum likelihood estimation for factor analysis. We prove that the corresponding likelihood equations have uncountably many feasible solutions even in the simplest cases. For the case in which the observed data are two-dimensional and the unobserved factor scores are one-dimensional, we prove that the solutions to the likelihood equations form a one-dimensional real curve.
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