Positive Definiteness via Off-diagonal Scaling of a Symmetric Indefinite Matrix

Psychometrika

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 119-123

  Bentler, Peter M ^a   Yuan, Ke Hai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

eigenvalues; indefinite matrix; minimum trace factor analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952247891     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-010-9191-3     Document Type: Article

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