Re: st: the "score" command in factor analysis

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 07:30 PM 3/16/2005 +0000, louis boakye-yiadom wrote:
> Dear All,
> According to stata's help document for -score-, "score creates a set of 
> new variables that are estimates of the factors produced by factor or 
> rotate (i.e., unrotated or rotated factors)". It seems to me though that 
> what the -score- command actually does, is to generate coefficients 
> (rather than the actual scores) which can then be used to generate 
> esimates of the factors (the factor scores?). Can anyone help be know 
> whether I'm right in my understanding of what -score- does? Thank you.
If you just type

score

you will see the coefficients from your previous factor or pca command or 
whatever.  But if you type something like

score scale1 scale2 scale3

you will generate new variables.


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