Re: st: Factor analysis after multiple imputation in STATA

["Rodrigo Alfaro" <raalfaroa@gmail.com>]

> If I'm correct (and again, I'm not sure I am), you would need to only
> apply some procedure that uses the EM algorithm to impute a single
> data set that would subsequently provide factor loadings that were
> essentially the same as those obtained through the use of multiple
> imputation, since the EM procedure doesn't add the noise to each data
> set that represents the imputation uncertainty that the MI procedures do.
>
> ...again, however, I'm hoping that someone could either confirm that
> I'm correct, or tell me where I'm wrong because I'm working on
> something similar.
>
> Jeff
>
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I said something similar, (1) compute EM, (2) use covariance matrix to
compute eigenvalues, etc. R
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