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

["louis boakye-yiadom" <louisby@hotmail.com>]

Thank you very much, Nick. Statalist is definitely a tremendous resource.

Louis


> In addition, and in extremis, you can
> recover the formula used by regressing
> the factor on the original variables.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Richard Williams
>
> louis boakye-yiadom
>
> > One more question ... can you
> > >please point me to where I can get information about how
> > "score" generates
> > >the estimates of the factors? This is because it appears the factor
> > >estimates are not simply linear combinations of the observed
> > variables
> > >with the scoring coefficients.
> >
> > If you have the Stata 8 Reference Manual A-F, the methods and
> > formulas are
> > given on pp. 387-388.  For scoring, it refers you to Harman
> > 1976 Modern
> > Factor Analysis and Lawley & Maxwell 1971 Factor Analysis as
> > a Statistical Method.
>
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