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RE: st: FW: Running Polychoric Principal Component Analysis in STATA
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Cameron McIntosh <[email protected]>
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RE: st: FW: Running Polychoric Principal Component Analysis in STATA
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Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:58:22 -0400
I might ask whether PCA vs. EFA vs. CFA is the most appropriate technique given the nature of the manifest variables and presumed latent constructs involved, about which we were provided very little information.
My two cents,
Cam
> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:25:25 +0100
> Subject: Re: st: FW: Running Polychoric Principal Component Analysis in STATA
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> Sorry for the error there
>
> Regards
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > -polychoric- is not on SSC. It's on Stas's Missouri website.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Abekah Nkrumah <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Dear Hilda,
> >>
> >> I have used the polychoric PCA command by Stas you can download it
> >> from SSC and it has an adequate help file which you can read. As far
> >> as I know you do not need to recode the data into dummies (see the
> >> paper publish by Stas Kolenikov and Angels in the Journal of Income
> >> and Wealth). It should be possible for you to go ahead and run the PCA
> >> with the variables on an ordinal scale. Hope this helps
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Essendi H. <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>> How can I run Polychoric principal component analysis in STATA? . I have likert scale data on wellbeing and I would like to prepare wealth quintiles based on these subjective responses. The challenge I am facing however is how to prepar e my variables before running this. I am not sure whether I need to recode them into dummy variables or just rung these with all the ordered category?. Also kindly advice on how to do this step by step.
> >>>
> >>> Many thanks,
> >>> Hildah
> >
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