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--=-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 R-devel list members, Ben Fairbank draw it to my attention that factanal() (in the stats package) doesn't report factor correlations for oblique rotations. Looking at the source, I see that factanal also doesn't save the factor-transformation (rotation) matrix from which these correlations can be computed. I've modified the source, attached below, so that the transformation

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]]

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

Dear R-help, Using R 1.2.1 on Windows98 to run a factor analysis on a 64x150 matrix of data generated from a simulation model, factanal() reported that it failed to find a solution. Looking at the factanal code, I see the immediate condition that triggered the result: if (best == Inf) stop("Unable to optimize from these starting value(s)") So I am sure factanal() is giving

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

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, Does factanal() force the user to use the formula interface if they wish to specify an na.action? v1 <- c(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,NA,1,3,3,3,3,3,4,5,6) v2 <- c(1,2,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,3,NA,3,3,3,4,6,5) v3 <- c(3,3,3,3,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,5,4,6) v4 <- c(3,3,4,NA,3,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,2,NA,1,5,6,4) v5 <- c(1,1,1,1,1,3,3,3,3,3,1,1,1,1,1,6,4,5) v6 <- c(1,1,1,2,1,3,3,3,4,3,1,1,1,2,1,6,5,4) m1

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) :

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"

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)

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

Hi. I tried running the following code. I don't understand the error. mydata <- read.table("C:/dataForR/radiology/wordFrequencies.csv", header=TRUE, sep=",") > dim(mydata) [1] 982 924 mydataN<-mydata[,-923] > dim(mydataN) [1] 982 923 cor(mydataN) factanal(mydataN, factors=3) Error in solve.default(cv) : Lapack routine dgesv: system is exactly singular

> Does factanal() force the user to use the formula interface if they > wish to specify an na.action? Short answer: yes. Long answer: The handling of na.action is a built in part of the formula processing functions, so it's automatic when dealing with a formula. There are also downstream effects on predict() and resid() that are worked out for the formula case, but aren't clear

Hi, I wonder why factor scores produced by factanal are correlated, and I'd appreciate any hints from people that may help me to get a deeper understanding why that's the case. By the way: I'm a psychologist used to SPSS, so that question my sound a little silly to your ears. Here's my minimal example: *********************************************** v1 <-

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, 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

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

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...