A Note on Identification in the Oblique and Orthogonal Factor Analysis Models

1 September 1980

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika

Vol. 45 (3) , 393-396
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02293911

Abstract

Conditions for removing the indeterminancy due to rotation are given for both the oblique and orthogonal factor analysis models. The conditions indicate why published counterexamples to conditions discussed by Jöreskog are not identifiable.

Keywords

IDENTIFICATION
ORTHOGONAL ROTATION
OBLIQUE ROTATION
FACTOR ANALYSIS

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Psychometrika, 1978
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Psychometrika, 1973
A General Approach to Confirmatory Maximum Likelihood Factor Analysis
Psychometrika, 1969