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Pat Crockett (crockett@Mickey.stat.unc.edu) wrote:
: battle was with L.L. Thurstone, a psychologist here at Chapel Hill who
: invented Factor Analysis. 

Only if you define "factor analysis" as "axial rotations performed after 
fitting a factor model."  He certainly made important contributions to 
the field, but he was hardly the first.

