-factor- and -pca- have been revised so that their
behaviour is closer to that of other commands. The main
idea now is to use -predict- instead.
As you want to proceed to a regression, -pca-
would sound a more obvious choice.
Nick
[email protected]
Garrard, Wendy M.
> There seems to be a change (in v. 9) in how one gets factor scores.
> Previously (v. 8) I simply used < score factorname > after an analysis
> run, but now that returns an error message that "score is not valid
> after factor.
>
> I have checked the help files, etc. but the terms are
> puzzling to me and
> I can't figure out how to compute a simple factor score (to use in a
> regression analysis).
>
> Could someone please point me in the right direction?
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