[R] Factor analysis

[Marcos Sanches]

	I would like to compare the performance of Principal component method and
principal axis method with maximum-likelihood because my data is not
multivariate Normal.
	Besides, how can I have the communalities with 'factanal' function? I
didn't find it on html help.
	Sorry, I am a new R user...

	Thanks

	Marcos



-----Original Message-----
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 5:45 PM
To: Marcos Sanches
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Factor analysis


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  And which outdated method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?

[irrelevant message deleted]

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