Dear Marcos:
At 06:06 PM 6/7/2002 -0300, Marcos Sanches wrote:
>> Besides, how can I have the communalities with
'factanal'
>> function? I
>>didn't find it on html help.
>> Sorry, I am a new R user...
and I wrote:
>The communalities are the complements of the uniquenesses (i.e., 1 -
>uniqueness). Alternatively, for orthogonally rotated factors, the
>communalities are the row sums of the matrix of factor loadings.
Actually, the communalities are the row sums of the *squared* loadings.
Sorry for the slip,
John
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