Instability of statistical factor analysis

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1805-1822

  Ellis, Steven P ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Principal components; Vector bundle

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442678907     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07272-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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