psych (version 1.0-17)

factor.model: Find R = F F' + U2 is the basic factor model

Description

The basic factor or principal components model is that a correlation or covariance matrix may be reproduced by the product of a factor loading matrix times its transpose. Find this reproduced matrix. Used by factor.fit, VSS, ICLUST, etc.

Usage

factor.model(f)

Arguments

f

A matrix of loadings.

Value

• A correlation or covariance matrix.

References

Gorsuch, Richard, (1983) Factor Analysis. Lawrence Erlebaum Associates. Revelle, W. In preparation) An Introduction to Psychometric Theory with applications in R (http://personality-project.org/r/book/)

See Also

ICLUST.graph,ICLUST.cluster, cluster.fit, VSS, omega

Examples

## The function is currently defined as
function(f) { 
    result<- f %*% t(f)
    return (result)}