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Full_Name: Mike Ulrich Version: 2.9 OS: Mac OSX Submission from: (NULL) (69.169.178.34) The help documentation for loadings() lists more then one parameter. The function call only expects one parameter. The digits, cutoff, and sort parameters are not used in the function. ## S3 method for class 'loadings': print(x, digits = 3, cutoff = 0.1, sort = FALSE, ...) ## S3 method for class

Dear list members, I apologize for putting this (probably) very basic question on the mailing list. I have scanned through the R website (using search) but did not found an answer. (code included below) A factor matrix is simply extracted (which can then subsequently be exported using write.table) by FACT$loadings[1:6,]. I would also like to specifically extract and export

--=-hiYzUeWcRJ/+kx41aPIZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, on March 10 I filed a wishlist bug report asking for the inclusion of some changes to factanal() and the associated print method. The changes were originally proposed by John Fox in 2005; they make print.factanal() display factor correlations if factanal() is called with rotation =

Dear all, i wonder if there?s a command to obtain the actual values of a principal component or a factor (not as.factor, but factanal) . test=princomp(USArrests, cor = TRUE) summary(test) just outputs, standard deviation, Prop of Variance and cumulative proportion of variance. test$loadings offers yet another proportion of variance scheme. why is that? Apart from that: Is there a

Hi, I had a look at the MASS4 scripts in the MASS package, in Ch 11.3 Factor Analysis, there is a section of codes like: data(ability.cov) ability.FA <- factanal(covmat = ability.cov, factors = 1) ability.FA (ability.FA <- update(ability.FA, factors = 2)) #summary(ability.FA) round(loadings(ability.FA) %*% t(loadings(ability.FA)) + diag(ability.FA$uniq), 3)

I am performing a large (105 variable) factor analysis with factanal, specifying promax rotation. I kow that some loadings over 1.0 are not unsual with that rotation, but I have some as large as 1.2, which seems extreme. I am skirting the assumptions of the model by using responses on a 7-point rating scale as data; I may have to go back and compute polychoric correlations instead of product

I am very new to factor analysis as well as R. I am trying to run a factor analysis on the residual returns on common stock (residual to some model) and trying to determine if there are any strong factors remaining. After running factanal, I can obtain the factor loadings but how do I get the values of the factor returns themselves? In other words if the relationship is r = lambda * f I

Hi R users, I need some help in the followings: I'm doing factor analysis and I need to extract the loading values and the Proportion Var and Cumulative Var values one by one. Here is what I am doing: > fact <- factanal(na.omit(gnome_freq_r2),factors=5); > fact$loadings Loadings: Factor1 Factor2 Factor3 Factor4 Factor5 b1freqr2 0.246 0.486 0.145

Can't make sense of calculated results and hope I'll find help here. I've collected answers from about 600 persons concerning three variables. I hypothesise those three variables to be components (or indicators) of one latent factor. In order to reduce data (vars), I had the following idea: Calculate the factor underlying these three vars. Use the loadings and the original var

Dear all, The 'make check' step fails for the pacakge mva on IBM AIX. The tail of the Rout log file looks like: > for(factors in 2:4) print(update(Harman23.FA, factors = factors)) Call: factanal(factors = factors, covmat = Harman23.cor) Uniquenesses: height arm.span forearm lower.leg weight 0.170 0.107 0.166

Dear Users, I ran factor analysis using R and SAS. However, I had different outputs from R and SAS. Why they provide different outputs? Especially, the factor loadings are different. I did real dataset(n=264), however, I had an extremely different from R and SAS. Why this things happened? Which software is correct on? Thanks in advance, - TY #R code with example data # A little

Dear R users: I'm wondering if it's possible to get the residual correlation matrix when using factanal. Since factanal assumes that the errors are normally distributed and independent (provided the factor model fits the data) this would be useful. Of course you would need to submit the data to the function to get the residuals (not just their correlation matrix), but it should be possible

Hi everyone- I have used several methods to calculate principal components rotated using the varimax procedure. This is simple enough. But I would like to calculate the % of variance explained associated with each PC before and after rotation. factanal returns the % of variance explained associated with each PC but I cannot seem to get it to change after rotation. Many thanks for your

Hi All, There were lot of diffrences in the R and SPSS results for Exploratory Factor Analysis.why is it so ?I used standard factor analysis functions like:-- factanal(m, factors=3, rotation="varimax") princomp(m, cor = FALSE, scores = TRUE, subset = rep(TRUE, nrow(as.matrix(m)))) print(summary(princomp(m, cor=TRUE),loadings = TRUE, cutoff = 0.2), digits = 2) prcomp(m, scale = TRUE)

Dear list members, Could any expert on factor analysis be so kind to explain how to calculate AIC on the output of factanal. Do I calculate AIC wrong or is factanal$criteria["objective"] not a negative log-likelihood? Best regards Jens Oehlschl?gel The AIC calculated using summary.factanal below don't appear correct to me: n items factors total.df rest.df model.df

Dear list members, Could any expert on factor analysis be so kind to explain how to calculate AIC on the output of factanal. Do I calculate AIC wrong or is factanal$criteria["objective"] not a negative log-likelihood? Best regards Jens Oehlschl?gel The AIC calculated using summary.factanal below don't appear correct to me: n items factors total.df rest.df model.df

In R factanal output, I can't find a function to give me residuals e. I mannually got it by using x -lamda1*f1 -lamda2*f2 - ... -lamdan*fn, but the e I got are not uncorrelated with all the f's. What did I do wrong? Please help. Yijun ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and

Hi, In a discussion of factor analysis in "Using Multivariate Statistics" by Tabachnick and Fidell, two matrices are singled out as important for interpreting an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with an oblique promax rotation. One is the "structure matrix". The structure matrix contains the correlations between variables and factors. However, these correlations may be

Hi, I have a set of covariance matrices but not the original data. I want to carry out some exploratory factor analysis. So, I am trying to construct a covariance matrix list as the input for factanal. I can construct a list which includes the cov, the centers, and the n.obs. But it doesn't work. I get an error that says "Error in sqrt(diag(cv)) : Non-numeric argument to mathematical

I am having difficulty obtaining the scores from my principal component analysis. I have used this method before and have had no problems. The data set that I am using this time is similar to what I have used in the past. What do I need to do to my dataset in order for me to obtain these scores? R screen says the following message Error in factanal(covmat = pasa.cov, factors = 4) :