Computation of the maximum likelihood estimator in low-rank factor analysis

Abstract Factor analysis is a classical multivariate dimensionality reduction technique popularly used in statistics, econometrics and data science. Estimation for factor analysis is often carried out via the maximum likelihood principle, which seeks to maximize the Gaussian likelihoo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Khamaru, Koulik, Mazumder, Rahul
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131369