Rotational transformations have traditionally played a key role in enhancing the interpretability of factor analysis via post-hoc modifications of the factor model orientation. Regularization methods also serve to achieve this goal by prioritizing sparse loading matrices. In this work, we cross-fertilize these two paradigms within a unifying Bayesian framework. Our approach deploys intermediate...

Artificial data with known covariance structure was used to directly test confounding hypothesis using Bayesian confirmatory factor analysis with small variance informative priors. The priors were derived from two extreme scenarios of no versus maximum confounding via exposure variables. Large (N=5000) and small (N=100) sample analyses were performed for both continuous and binary variable mode...

In the past 20 years, there has been a steadily increasing attention and demand for Bayesian data analysis across multiple scientific disciplines, including psychology. Bayesian methods and the related Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling techniques offered renewed ways of handling old and challenging new problems that may be difficult or impossible to handle using classical approaches. Yet, such ...

We discuss the development of dynamic factor models for multivariate nancial time series, and the incorporation of stochastic volatility components for latent factor processes. Bayesian inference and computation is developed and explored in a study of the dynamic factor structure of daily spot exchange rates for a selection of international currencies. The models are direct gen-eralisations of ...