Re: st: FW: equivalent SAS PRINQUAL procedure in Stata

[Alberto R Osella <arosella@irccsdebellis.it>]

See pca
help pca will give you a first sight on help.

Otherwise you can to the online pdf documentation:

Title

pca — Principal component analysis
Syntax
Principal component analysis of data
pca varlist

if
 
in
 
weight
 
, options

Principal component analysis of a correlation or covariance matrix
pcamat matname, n(#)

options pcamat options

Hper this helps



Alberto R. Osella, MD, PhD
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Il 22/06/2012 13:12, Laura Grigolon ha scritto:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I would like to know whether there is a module in Stata that performs the equivalent of the PRINQUAL procedure in SAS.
> The PRINQUAL performs principal component analysis (PCA) of qualitative, quantitative, or mixed data:
>
> http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/statug/63033/HTML/default/viewer.htm#statug_prinqual_sect001.htm
>
> I am not very familiar with the literature so I hope the question makes sense. I am working with a dataset containing product attributes that are both continuous and categorical (but not ordinal).
>
> I would really appreciate any help. Thank you,
>
> Laura
>
> Laura Grigolon
> University of Leuven - Department of Economics HOG 02.104 - Naamsestraat 69 - B-3000 Leuven
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> E-mail: laura.grigolon@econ.kuleuven.be
> http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/public/N07082/
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