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For one factor, write $\lambda \in {\mathbb{R}}^p$ for the loading vector and $v={\sigma }^2>0$. Let ${\lambda }_t$ be its current value and $s=v+\Vert {\lambda }_t{\Vert }^2$. The E-step of the expectation-maximization algorithm uses the conditional multivariate normal distribution to obtainThus $\mathbb{E}[Z_i^2\mid Y_i]=u+m_i^2$. The terms of the expected complete-data log-likelihood that depend on a candidate $\lambda$ areThis is a strictly concave quadratic in $\lambda$, since ${\sum }_i(u+m_i^2)>0$. Its unique maximizer isFor an explicit expression involving only the current loading and data, put $S=n^{-1}{\sum }_i{Y}_i{Y}_i^T$. Substitution gives the EM update for a single-factor Gaussian modelNo empirical centering is applied because the model fixes the mean to zero. If initialized at zero, this update remains at zero; monotonicity alone does not guarantee that such a stationary point is a global maximum. This part is present in the PDF but missing from the TeX transcription.