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fad

Factor Analysis for Data

v0.9-3 · Aug 26, 2025 · GPL-3

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Compute maximum likelihood estimators of parameters in a Gaussian factor model using the the matrix-free methodology described in Dai et al. (2020) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2019.1704296>. In contrast to the factanal() function from 'stats' package, fad() can handle high-dimensional datasets where number of variables exceed the sample size and is also substantially faster than the EM algorithms.

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Version History

new 0.9-3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.9-3 ← 0.9-1 diff Aug 26, 2025
updated 0.9-1 ← 0.3-3 diff Apr 30, 2022
updated 0.3-3 ← 0.2-1 diff Jan 9, 2021
new 0.2-1 Jan 23, 2020