Re: I'm back. Different issue: Factor scores

[Hugo Alejandro]

I'm no expert in this routine, but there are some things PSPP still can not do.
If you want to learn more about it, please check the documentation.

https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/pspp.html#FACTOR

2013/8/25 Mark Levine <address@hidden>

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't find an option to output factor scores in the FACTOR routine, as the regression routine outputs predicted values/residuals. Am I missing something?

There are several different approaches but the Thurstone approach is pretty common and the matrix algebra (as I remember) not too tricky. I can find the matrix equations if that would help someone with coding chops.

Short of that, I can approximate factor scores by summing/weighting scores on the key loading variables of each factor (transformed to standardized form).

Is there a simpler/better approach?

Cheers,

Mark


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