A joint treatment of varimax rotation and the problem of diagonalizing symmetric matrices simultaneously in the least-squares sense |
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Authors: | Jos M. F. ten Berge |
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Affiliation: | (1) University of Groningen, The Netherlands;(2) Subfaculteit der Psychologie, Rijksuniversiteit, Grote Markt 31/32, 9712 HV Groningen, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | The present paper contains a lemma which implies that varimax rotation can be interpreted as a special case of diagonalizing symmetric matrices as discussed in multidimensional scaling. It is shown that the solution by De Leeuw and Pruzansky is essentially equivalent to the solution by Kaiser. Necessary and sufficient conditions for maxima and minima are derived from first and second order partial derivatives. A counter-example by Gebhardt is reformulated and examined in terms of these conditions. It is concluded that Kaiser's method or, equivalently, the method by De Leeuw and Pruzansky is the most attractive method currently available for the problem at hand.The author is obliged to Dirk Knol for computational assistance and to Dirk Knol, Klaas Nevels and Frits Zegers for critically reviewing an earlier draft of this paper. |
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Keywords: | Varimax rotation diagonalizing quadratic forms |
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