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In the course of developing the minres method of factor analysis the troublesome situation of communalities greater than one arose. This problem—referred to as the generalized Heywood case—is resolved in this paper by means of a process of minimizing the sum of squares of off-diagonal residuals. The resulting solution is superior to the otherwise very efficient original minres method without requiring additional computing time.
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Both authors were with the System Development Corporation when this work was done.
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Harman, H.H., Fukuda, Y. Resolution of the heywood case in the minres solution. Psychometrika 31, 563–571 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02289525
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02289525