ThreeWay (version 1.1.3)

varim: Varimax roation

Description

Produces varimax rotated version of A and rotation matrix T.

Usage

varim(A)

Value

A list including the following components:

B

Rotated version of A (B=AT)

T

Rotation matrix

f

Varimax function value

Arguments

A

Matrix to be to be rotated

Author

Maria Antonietta Del Ferraro [email protected]
Henk A.L. Kiers [email protected]
Paolo Giordani [email protected]

References

H. Kaiser (1958). The varimax criterion for analytic rotation in factor analysis. Psychometrika 23:187--200.
K. Nevels (1986). A direct solution for pairwise rotations in Kaiser's varimax method. Psychometrika 51:327--329.

See Also

normvari

Examples

X <- matrix(rnorm(6*3),ncol=3)
Y <- varim(X)
# varimax rotated version of X
Y$B
# rotation matrix
Y$T