> Does anybody know how to carry out a factor analysis in
> Stata using an
> externally generated correlation matrix? To my knowledge,
> _factor_ does not
> allow this. I was thinking of "having a look" into the
> factor.ado file in
> order to try to accommodate such an option, but somehow I
> could not find the
> file in my "C:\Stata\ado\base\f" directory. Where could the
> _factor_ routine
> be?
Going backwards, the -factor- code is part of the executable
and so inscrutable to users. This rather inhibits factor
analysts adding their own desired rotations and other
post hoc whatnot.
Check out -corr2data-.
Nick
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