It is argued that Mosier's simple, “approximate” procrustes transformation solution for factor analysis, with the transformation vectors not at first constrained to unit-length, is preferable to a solution for his original much more difficult problem, attacked by many investigators, where the transformation vectors are initially restricted to unit-length.
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