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Hi Can anybody please suggest me about the documentation of "factanal.fit.mle()" (Not factanal()------ searching factanal.fit.mle() in R always leads to factanal()). Is there any function for doing principal component factor analysis in R. Regards Souvik Bandyopadhyay JRF, Dept Of Statistics Calcutta University [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi list, I'm performing a series of confirmatory factor analysis on different groupings of items from data collected with questionnaires. There are some missing values. For those sets with no missing values I call factanal(datamatrix,factors=n) where datamatrix is a table of all observations for the items under investigation. This call fails when there are missing values. help(factanal)

Hi. It seems that nearly every time I try to use factanal I get the following response: >faa2db1<-factanal(mretdb1,factors=2,method="mle",control=list(nstart=25)) Error in factanal(mretdb1, factors = 2, method = "mle", control = list(nstart = 25)) : unable to optimize from these starting value(s) > In the case cited above, mretdb1 is synthetic data created

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

Hello! I have a question about the factanal function. This function returns at the end test statistics like this: Test of the hypothesis that 4 factors are sufficient. The chi square statistic is 4.63 on 2 degrees of freedom. The p-value is 0.0988 Is it possible to get the chi square statistic and the p-value as variables, not the text on the screen? An object of class "factanal"

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

I am sure there is a simple way to do the following, but i haven't been able to find it. I am hoping a merciful soul on R-help could point me in the right direction. I am doing a factor analysis on survey data with missing values. to do this, I run: FA1<-factanal(na.omit(DATA), factors = X, rotation = 'oblimin', scores = 'regression') Now that I have my factors and

Hi I am trying to run Factor Analysis using R...I am using the syntax factanal(m1, factors=3) but it's giving me an message Error in cov.wt(z) : 'x' must contain finite values only ...I am using a data set which is having only numeric variables and have some NA's also in it..What should I do next..Someone please help me out with the syntax..Thanks in advance Cheers Arup --

Can someone please direct me to how to run a factor analysis in R by first inputting a correlation matrix? Does the function "factanal" allow one to read a correlation matrix instead of data vectors? Thanks, Matt. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi! I am trying to analyse with R a database that I have previously analysed with SPSS. Steps with SPSS: Factorial analysis Extraction options : I select = Principal component analysis Rotation: varimax Steps with R: I have tried it with varimax function with factanal or with princomp...and the results are different of what I have with SPSS. I think that varimax function is incorporated in

Hi there, Does anyone know how to explicitly refer to the p-value of thet test that the chosen number of factors is significant in a factor analysis. It's not in the list of values for the factanal command output yet it is printed out with the results. Thanks in advance. Wayne Dr Wayne R. Jones Statistician / Research Analyst KSS Group plc St James's Buildings 79 Oxford Street

Dear friends, I'm using R to produce the following Factor Analysis: > matriz.cor<-hetcor(matrix(as.factor(data), ncol=variables, byrow=T))$correlations > factanal(x=data, factors=2, covmat=matriz.cor, scores='regression') Then the screen output shows the following message: Error en factanal(x = data, factors = 2, covmat = matrix, : requested scores without

Hi, I am currently trying to execute the following command: f<-factanal(factors=k$Components$nparallel,covmat=m,n.obs=2287,rotation="varimax",control=list(opt=list(method=c("BFGS")))) but keep getting the error: L-BFGS-B needs finite values of 'fn' I can't figure out what I am doing wrong here, why isn't optim being told to use BFGS instead of L-BFGS-B...

Dear R developers, Would it be possible to make `factanal` to also accept functions and not just function names for its `rotation` parameter? If I understand correctly, `do.call` also supports this. Best greetings, Stefan -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: patch.diff Type: text/x-patch Size: 568 bytes Desc: patch.diff URL:

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Greetings, all: I am using factanal in R. When I enter a matrix or a formula, the print method winds up with something like this: Test of the hypothesis that 6 factors are sufficient. The chi square statistic is 28.1 on 22 degrees of freedom. The p-value is 0.172 But when I enter a covmat, the print method winds up with something like this: The degrees of freedom for the model is 22 and the

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

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

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

--=-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 =