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Re: st: PCA with Missing Values (or other factor analysis)
From
Nick Eubank <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: PCA with Missing Values (or other factor analysis)
Date
Tue, 5 Jul 2011 09:03:19 -0700
No worries! Thanks for giving it a shot!
On Tuesday, July 5, 2011, David Svendsgaard
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I gave you the wrong answer. I thought you were trying to predict votes
> with some independent variables and you were using PCA
> scores of these independent variables as the predictors.
>
> It sounds like you have classified the subject of the vote, somehow. I
> don't have an answer for this.
>
> Sorry for the confusion.
>
>
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>
> David J Svendsgaard, PhD
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> From: Nick Eubank <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Date: 07/03/2011 12:17 AM
> Subject: st: PCA with Missing Values (or other factor analysis)
> Sent by: [email protected]
>
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I'm trying to do a PCA on legislator votes (1 or 0), where different
> legislators have overlapping but distinct terms. In other words,
> legislator A is in office periods 1 and 2, legislator B is in office 2
> and 3, so A has no votes in period 3 and B has no votes in period A. I
> want to map their "ideal points" (i.e. pca predicted value from votes)
> into the same space. But PCA obviously dislikes missing values.
>
> Suggestion? I'm really open to any factor analysis algorithm.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nick
>
>
>
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