Boubacar-Sid wrote:
Does anybody how to interpret the results of the "principal component analysis"
obtained by typing the command line:
    pca varlist [if] [in] [weight] [, options].
I haven't found any in the manual.
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You didn't really type:
    pca varlist [if] [in] [weight] [, options]
did you?
As of Stata 9 -pca- is described in the [MV] manual (multivariate statistics),
with several examples; in Stata 8 is was in [R].
Happy New Year
Svend
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