factanal() was originally in MASS which is support software for Venables &
Ripley (2002). They have Bartholomew & Knott (1999) as the main reference for
factor analysis, so that would be a place to look (I don't have it to hand).
At any rate, varimax optimizes a well-defined criterion, so the "
Hello,
recently I was looking at the implementation of the "varimax" rotation
procedure from the "stats" package and to me it looks quite different
from the algorithm originally suggested by Kaiser in 1958.
The R procedure iteratively uses singular value decompositions of some
matrices where
