[R] how to get residuals in factanal

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Yijun Zhao wrote:

> In R factanal output, I can't find a function to give me residuals e.
>
> I mannually got it by using x -lamda1*f1 -lamda2*f2  - ... -lamdan*fn, but the e
> I got are not uncorrelated with all the f's.
>
> What did I do wrong? Please help.

What did you use for 'f'?  The factors ('scores') are latent quantities in 
factor analysis, and there is more than one way to predict them.  Most 
likely your assumption of uncorrelatedness is not correct for the 
residuals and scores as you computed them.

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