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Re: st: RE: PCA and panel data


From   [email protected]
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: PCA and panel data
Date   Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:02:34 +1000


Thanks Nick, I fixed the problem.


----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, January 10, 2009 3:43 am
Subject: st: RE: PCA and panel data
To: [email protected]

> Please send plain text emails only to the list. (This posting arrived
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>
> These days, almost everyone wants to stress that PCA and factor
> analysisare related but disjoint, although the perspective is
> different. For PCA
> enthusiasts, factor analysis is a bizarre variant on PCA. For factor
> analysis enthusiasts, PCA is an uninteresting limiting or
> special case
> of factor analysis.
>
> Setting aside this confusion, the direct answer to your question can
> only be a guess. But my guess is that despite what you say, you
> do not
> have  complete observations on the variables concerned. So,
> look again
> at your data.
>
> Among other tools, -nmissing- from the SJ files gives a concise report
> on missing values. 
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> [email protected]
>
> I am trying to conduct a factor analysis on panel data. However,
> the pca
> only seems to run for a 1/4 of the total number of observations
> in my
> dataset. I have done ipolate to account for missing data and all
> obervations are standardised. What I am doing wrong?
>
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