抄録
A computer program MALIFA developed by Driel(1975)was implemented on a wide spread personal computer and was applied to several sets of data in the literature. MALIFA can obtain the maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters in the orthogonal common factor analysis model with different kind of constraints depending on the classical or non-classical approach.In the non-classical approach, even complex solution can be obtained.In this study, it is shown that when squared multiple correlation is used as a initial estimate of communality, MALIFA happened to yield a lower value of the objective function to be minimized in the classical approach than the non-classical approach. Although some care is needed in its use, MALIFA seemes to provide a useful tool for studying the cause of improper solution in maximum likelihood factor analysis.
