Mario Alfonso Morales Rivera wrote: > Is there any R function to perform factor analysis using Principal > Component Method? > > why factanal() method is " always "mle" " ? > Because PCM is not "factor analysis" (the two methods fit different models) and R didn't want to take part in the mislabeling (which I believe comes from SPSS). You can do PCM with the prcomp() and princomp() functions.
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