A quasi-newton method for minimum trace factor analysis

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 62, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 73-89

  Jamshidian, Mortaza ^a   Bentler, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained minimum trace factor analysis; Han powell algorithm; Minimum trace factor analysis; Reliability; Weighted minimum trace factor analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040585051     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659808811925     Document Type: Article

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