A novel algorithm for dynamic factor analysis

In this paper, a dynamic factor model is proposed to extract the dynamic factors from time series data. In order to deal with the problem of scaling, the cross-correlation matrices (CCM) are first employed to cluster the time series data. Then, the dynamic factors are extracted using the revised independent component analysis (ICA). In addition, a numerical study is used to demonstrate the proposed method. On the basis of the simulated results, we can conclude that the proposed method can really extract the effective dynamic factors.