I have seen old posts on this topic, but I am still not entirely clear on
how to proceed with my estimation. I was planning on using confirmatory
factor analysis (with one factor) to reduce my data and create a new
explanatory variable to be used in a regression. I believe that my
variables can be considered as indicators of an underlying latent variable.
The issue is that my data are a combination of binary, likerd scale, and
continuous variables. As I understand it, the regular factor command in
stata is not appropriate in this case, as it assumes the data are
continuous and cardinal. I have been reading about the gllamm procedures
and they seem appropriate, but I am not sure of what I need to specify in
the commands (e.g. distributions) and how to create a new variable based on
my results, i.e. is there something similar to the 'score" command after
using 'factor"?
Any help on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Heidi Gjertsen
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