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| From | "JVerkuilen (Gmail)" <jvverkuilen@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: % of variance in factor analysis |
| Date | Wed, 29 May 2013 21:25:01 -0400 |
More Googling will help but this is a good set of slides that isn't misleading. I also recommend the discussion in: James Lattin, J. Douglas Carroll, & Paul E. Green. (2003). Analyzing Multivariate Data. Duxbury. On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Mash Hamid <MXH191@bham.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for this but this still does not help me understand it. > > > ________________________________________ > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] on behalf of JVerkuilen (Gmail) [jvverkuilen@gmail.com] > Sent: 30 May 2013 01:53 > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu > Subject: Re: st: % of variance in factor analysis > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Mash Hamid <MXH191@bham.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> I have been performing factor analysis and I am having trouble understanding the % of variance and to explain it in layman's terms. >> >> >> I have a dataset with 40 variables and the first factor has an eigenvalue of 13 and the second factor has an eigenvalue of 2. Now the first factor accounts for 40% of the variance, and the second has variance of 8% after rotation. Now in layman's terms, what does "% of the variance of each factor" mean? >> > > http://www.quantpsy.org/pubs/preacher_maccallum_2003.pdf > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ -- JVVerkuilen, PhD jvverkuilen@gmail.com "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/