st: Re: Re: Why do Stata Cronbach's Alpha values not match SAS?

["Joseph Coveney" <jcoveney@bigplanet.com>]

Benjamin Gramig wrote:

. . .

I feel I still need to use SAS for the accompanying PCA of the items in the
scale because I cannot figure out how to output factor loadings or apply
rotations following -polychoric pca-. It is my understanding that for
ordinal/Likert data I need to use polychoric correlations (or another technique)
to perform PCA correctly.

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According to the help file for Stas Kolenikov's -polychoricpca-, results are
available as returned matrixes.  

For rotation, if you've already downloaded -polychoricpca-, then you've
downloaded his -polychoric-, as well.  You can use the latter in tandem with
Stata's official -pcamat-, which works with -rotate- (and which also makes the
components available as a returned matrix).

Joseph Coveney

version 11.2

clear *
set more off
sysuse auto

polychoricpca rep78 foreign mpg
matrix list r(eigenvectors)

polychoric rep78 foreign mpg
pcamat r(R), n(`r(N)')
matrix list e(L)
estat loadings
rotate

exit


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