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I'm working with a data collected through complex survey design. My goal is to conduct a factor analysis to extract two a priori, known factors, and to get factor scores for these factors. Unfortunately, the "svyfactanal" procedure from the Survey package does not allow for the calculation of either Thompson regression scores or Bartlett scores. So, I found several sources that say one can simply sum "raw scores." I found this quote from this pdf file (http://pareonline.net/pdf/v14n20.pdf): &qu...

hello there, I am trying to use a weight variable in a factor analysis but apparently the factanal command does not have a weight option. Any way to this? Thanks for your suggestions, V [[alternative HTML version deleted]]