search for: svyprcomp

Displaying 1 result from an estimated 1 matches for "svyprcomp".

2016 Apr 30
0
Unexpected scores from weighted PCA with svyprcomp()
...indicator using data from a national household survey. The economic indicator is to be the first principal component from a principal components analysis, which (given the source of the data) I believe should take in consideration the sampling weights of the observations. After running the PCA with svyprcomp(), from the survey package, I wanted to list the loading (with regard to the first principal component) and the scale of the variables, so that I can tell people how to "reconstitute" the economic indicator from the variables without any knowledge of PCA. This reconstituted indicator woul...