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15.—The Inversion of an Augmented Information Matrix occurring in Factor Analysis*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

D. N. Lawley
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of Edinburgh

Synopsis

In a certain factor analysis model sampling formulae for maximum likelihood estimators of the parameters are found by inverting an augmented information matrix. The formulae were derived previously by other methods; but the techniques here employed may be of some general interest and applicable to other problems.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1976

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