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  <dc:title>Penalized Likelihood Factor Analysis via Nonconvex Penalty</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package fanc version 2.4.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Computes the penalized maximum likelihood estimates of factor loadings and unique variances for various tuning parameters. The pathwise coordinate descent along with EM algorithm is used.  This package also includes a graphical tool which outputs path diagrams, heatmaps, goodness-of-fit indices and model selection criteria for each regularization parameter (Yamamoto, M., Hirose, K. and Nagata, H., 2017 &lt;doi:10.1007/s41237-016-0007-3&gt;). The user can change the regularization parameter interactively with a built-in self-contained HTML viewer (no additional packages required), which is helpful to find a suitable value of regularization parameter. As a penalty, we can choose either the minimax concave penalty (Hirose, K. and Yamamoto, M., 2015 &lt;doi:10.1007/s11222-014-9458-0&gt;; Hirose, K. and Yamamoto, M., 2014 &lt;doi:10.1016/j.csda.2014.05.011&gt;) or the product-based elastic net penalty (Hirose, K. and Terada, Y., 2023 &lt;doi:10.1007/s11336-022-09868-4&gt;).</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: Matrix</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: grDevices, graphics, stats, utils</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Kei Hirose &lt;mail@keihirose.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Kei Hirose [aut, cre] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9827-0356&gt;),
  Michio Yamamoto [aut],
  Haruhisa Nagata [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-07-26</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=fanc</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.fanc</dc:identifier>
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