Re: st: Re: Factor analysis after multiple imputation in STATA

["Woolton Lee" <finished07@gmail.com>]

Thanks for your reply.  So it sounds as though you are saying that I
can use the EM algorthm to run factor analysis in the presence of
missing data.  Is that correct?  How might I go about implementing
this approach?  By the way, do you have any references I might use to
get some background on this approach?

Thank you for your help,

Woolton


On 7/12/07, Rodrigo A. Alfaro <raalfaroa@gmail.com> wrote:
> ///
> It is not clear to me what you can get averaging the factor loading. For a
> reasonable number of factors, you could print out your output for each
> imputed-dataset and try to find if there is any pattern. For example,
> variable x1 has some load between 0.7 and 0.74... if you get x2 has loads
> between -0.2 and 0.8, then I would think more carefully about the imputation
> method.
>
> Alternative, you could try EM-algorithm to get the variance-covariance
> matrix under normality assumption. With that it would be clear how to obtain
> the associated factors (there will be just one).
>
> Good luck, R
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Woolton Lee" <finished07@gmail.com>
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 4:44 PM
> Subject: st: Factor analysis after multiple imputation in STATA
>
>
> >I am working with a dataset with many missing values across the
> > variables and have used multiple imputation via chained equations
> > (created by Patrick Royston) to generate 5 multiply imputed datasets
> > with the objective of running factor analysis to analyze the
> > relationships among the variables in the dataset.  However, it seems
> > that MICOMBINE is only tailored for regression type procedures and is
> > not appropriate for application when implementing factor analysis
> > after multiple imputation.  Is there a STATA command such as MICOMBINE
> > that can be used to obtain factor loadings from the multiply imputed
> > data or will I have to apply Rubin (1987) 's formula manually (via
> > MATA or programming) to obtain the factor loadings after running
> > factor analysis separately on each of the imputed datasets?
> >
> > As a side note, I think that Rubin (1987)'s formula applied to factor
> > analysis would simply be the mean of the of the factor loadings across
> > the imputed datasets (I have 5 imputed datasets) , but is this
> > correct, or should I be using a different formula for the factor
> > loadings across imputed datasets?
> >
> > I would greatly appreciate any assistance,
> >
> > Woolton
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