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Re: st: Principal components


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Principal components
Date   Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:51:12 +0100 (BST)

You can find them in the matrix e(L) after you have run -pca-.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

--- daniel cassar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I am at odds with principal components in Stata. I am using -pca- to
> create an index of eight variables but I cannot seem to find a way to
> find a way to get the weights for the underlying variables. Is there
> anybody who can help me with this? 
> 
> I use the following procedure
> 
> -pca var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 var6 var7 var8-
> 
> then, I get the first component as my index:
> 
> -predict index, score-
> 
> How do I get the weights for var1 ... var8 in index?
> 
> 
> Help very much appreciated. 
> 
> Best regards, 
> DC
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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