From 1987 until about 1993, Ledyard Tucker and I worked on writing a book on factor analysis. The project was not completed, and will not be completed. We did not complete planned material on confirmatory factor analysis and a variety of advanced topics. In addition, the manuscript is incomplete in that there is no index or list of references, and appendices that are mentioned in the text are not available. Nevertheless, the completed material does provide an extensive technical treatment of the factor analysis model as well as methods for conducting exploratory factor analysis.

We have decided to make the manuscript available free to anyone who wants it. You are welcome to download the entire manuscript or selected chapters as you prefer. The material is available in two forms: pdf format, which can be viewed and printed using Acrobat reader software, and postscript format, which can be viewed and printed using postscript software. If you don't have an appropriate reader, you should obtain one before you attempt to download these book chapters.

A caution: The full manuscript is approximately 500 pages.

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