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RE: st: FW: Running Polychoric Principal Component Analysis in STATA


From   "Essendi H." <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: FW: Running Polychoric Principal Component Analysis in STATA
Date   Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:08:42 +0000

Dear Stas,

Yes, I have received it, thanks and thanks for the paper. I am now reading it.

Kind regards,
Hildah

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stas Kolenikov
Sent: 22 August 2012 15:04
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: FW: Running Polychoric Principal Component Analysis in STATA

You received some good responses on linkedin.com: -findit polychoric-.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Essendi H. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear STATA,
>
> 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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