On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Yijun Zhao wrote: > In R factanal output, I can't find a function to give me residuals e. > > I mannually got it by using x -lamda1*f1 -lamda2*f2 - ... -lamdan*fn, but > the e > I got are not uncorrelated with all the f's. > > What did I do wrong? Please help.
What did you use for 'f'? The factors ('scores') are latent quantities in factor analysis, and there is more than one way to predict them. Most likely your assumption of uncorrelatedness is not correct for the residuals and scores as you computed them. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.