--- Simo Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Dr.Maarten,
I hope to become a dr. next year, now I am just drs.
> I need to have a second variable to perform ice command. For example,
> I create a dummy variable indicating whether she is using a computer
> at work or not.
you are doing a factor analysis, so you have multiple variables. Say
that the other variable you are going to use in your factor analysis
are called fax and stapler, than you would type:
ice computer fax stapler
> Your explanation raised another question for me: You said that
> "This looks problematic, even without missing data."
> Are there alternative ways for the same purpose?
this is an area of active research, see for instance (Joreskog and
Moustaki 2006). I am not aware of any implementation in Stata, though I
imagine that it might be possible to use -gllamm- in this way. But,
don't ask me how to do that. Maybe others on this list know more?
-- Maarten
Karl G. Joreskog and Irini Moustaki (2006), "Factor Analysis of Ordinal
Variables with Full Information Maximum Likelihood" http://www.ssicentral.com/lisrel/techdocs/orfiml.pdf
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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