It is proved for the common factor model with r common factors that under certain condition s which maintain the distinctiveness of each common factor a given common factor will be determinate if there exists an unlimited number of variables in the model each having an absolute correlation with the factor greater than some arbitrarily small positive quantity.
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Stanley A. Mulaik (1981) studied this question.
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