In addition, and in extremis, you can
recover the formula used by regressing
the factor on the original variables.
Nick
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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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