[R] Factor analysis

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Marcos Sanches wrote:

>
> 	Hello R users,
>
> 	I need to perform factor analysis and I am using the 'mva' package for
> this. Is there any other package which has a function for factor analysis
> that can use other method of estimation besides maximum-likelihood?

Why do you want to use an inferior method?  And which outdated method
do you want to use?

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