The routine may be called by the names g03bdf or nagf_mv_rot_promax.
3Description
Let and denote matrices each representing a set of points in an -dimensional space. The matrix is a matrix of loadings as returned by g03baf, that is following an orthogonal rotation of a loadings matrix . The target matrix is calculated as a power transformation of that preserves the sign of the loadings. Let and denote the th element of matrices and . Given a value greater than for the exponent :
for
;
;
The above power transformation tends to increase the difference between high and low values of loadings and is intended to increase the interpretability of a solution.
In the second step a solution of:
is found for in the least squares sense by use of singular value decomposition of the orthogonal loadings . The ProMax rotation matrix is then given by
where is the rotation matrix from an orthogonal transformation, and is a matrix with the square root of diagonal elements of on its diagonal and zeros elsewhere.
The ProMax factor pattern matrix is given by
the inter-factor correlations are given by
where ; and the factor structure is given by
Optionally, the rows of target matrix can be scaled by the communalities of loadings.
4References
None.
5Arguments
1: – Character(1)Input
On entry: indicates how loadings are normalized.
Rows of are (Kaiser) normalized by the communalities of the loadings.
Rows are not normalized.
Constraint:
or .
2: – IntegerInput
On entry: , the number of points.
Constraint:
.
3: – IntegerInput
On entry: , the number of dimensions.
Constraint:
.
4: – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayInput
On entry: the loadings matrix following an orthogonal rotation, .
5: – IntegerInput
On entry: the first dimension of the array x as declared in the (sub)program from which g03bdf is called.
Constraint:
.
6: – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayInput
On entry: the orthogonal rotation matrix, .
7: – IntegerInput
On entry: the first dimension of the array ro as declared in the (sub)program from which g03bdf is called.
Constraint:
.
8: – Real (Kind=nag_wp)Input
On entry: , the value of exponent.
Constraint:
.
9: – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayOutput
On exit: the factor pattern matrix, .
10: – IntegerInput
On entry: the first dimension of the array fp as declared in the (sub)program from which g03bdf is called.
Constraint:
.
11: – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayOutput
On exit: the ProMax rotation matrix, .
12: – IntegerInput
On entry: the first dimension of the array r as declared in the (sub)program from which g03bdf is called.
Constraint:
.
13: – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayOutput
On exit: the matrix of inter-factor correlations, .
14: – IntegerInput
On entry: the first dimension of the array phi as declared in the (sub)program from which g03bdf is called.
Constraint:
.
15: – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayOutput
On exit: the factor structure matrix, .
16: – IntegerInput
On entry: the first dimension of the array fs as declared in the (sub)program from which g03bdf is called.
Constraint:
.
17: – IntegerInput/Output
On entry: ifail must be set to , or to set behaviour on detection of an error; these values have no effect when no error is detected.
A value of causes the printing of an error message and program execution will be halted; otherwise program execution continues. A value of means that an error message is printed while a value of means that it is not.
If halting is not appropriate, the value or is recommended. If message printing is undesirable, then the value is recommended. Otherwise, the value is recommended. When the value or is used it is essential to test the value of ifail on exit.
On exit: unless the routine detects an error or a warning has been flagged (see Section 6).
6Error Indicators and Warnings
If on entry or , explanatory error messages are output on the current error message unit (as defined by x04aaf).
Errors or warnings detected by the routine:
On entry, .
Constraint: .
On entry, .
Constraint: .
On entry, .
Constraint: or .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
The singular value decomposition has failed to converge. This is an unlikely error exit.
An internal error has occurred in this routine. Check the routine call and any array sizes. If the call is correct then please contact NAG for assistance.
An unexpected error has been triggered by this routine. Please
contact NAG.
See Section 7 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.
Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 8 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.
Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 9 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.
7Accuracy
The calculations are believed to be stable.
8Parallelism and Performance
g03bdf is threaded by NAG for parallel execution in multithreaded implementations of the NAG Library.
g03bdf makes calls to BLAS and/or LAPACK routines, which may be threaded within the vendor library used by this implementation. Consult the documentation for the vendor library for further information.
Please consult the X06 Chapter Introduction for information on how to control and interrogate the OpenMP environment used within this routine. Please also consult the Users' Note for your implementation for any additional implementation-specific information.
9Further Comments
None.
10Example
This example reads a loadings matrix and calculates a varimax transformation before calculating , and for a ProMax rotation.