Starting Values for MLE Factor Analysis
DESCRIPTION:
Returns a matrix each of whose columns is a vector of starting values for the algorithm used by factanal.fit.mle.
USAGE: 
factanal.start.mle(cmat, factors, p=dim(cmat)[1], s.inv=solve(cmat))
REQUIRED ARGUMENTS:
cmat:
a correlation matrix.
factors:
the number of factors in the model.
OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS:
p:
the number of variables (the number of row and columns in cmat).
s.inv:
the inverse of cmat.
VALUE:
a matrix with columns that give starting values for the uniquenesses in the maximum likelihood estimation of a factor analysis model. The first column is the starting value suggested by Joreskog (1977), the second is one minus the maximum correlation of each variable with the rest, and the remaining three columns have each element equal to .1, .5 and .9, respectively.
SEE ALSO:
factanal.fit.mle , factanal .