reading principal component analysis output

[Deepa Lakshmi Shanadi]

Hello all,

 

Anyone have any recommendations on any resources that show on how to read output from factor analysis from SPSS?

I looked at the tutorial on SPSS and it has helped me some.

 

My online research only guided me to more on theory of PCA, than reading outputs and actually making sure I clicked on the righ dialog boxes in SPSS.

 

My syntax so far from the tutorial is below:

 

FACTOR
  /VARIABLES Eincomegroup Ewealthgroup_revised Eassetsgroup
  /MISSING LISTWISE
  /ANALYSIS Eincomegroup Ewealthgroup_revised Eassetsgroup
  /SELECT=schoolfeeding(1)
  /PRINT UNIVARIATE INITIAL CORRELATION SIG EXTRACTION ROTATION FSCORE
  /PLOT EIGEN
  /CRITERIA MINEIGEN(1) ITERATE(25)
  /EXTRACTION PC
  /CRITERIA ITERATE(25)
  /ROTATION VARIMAX
  /SAVE REG(ALL)
  /METHOD=CORRELATION.

 

Thanks again,
Deepa

[Mike Speed]

I am out of the office until 10/10/2010

[Bruce Weaver]

Deepa Lakshmi Shanadi wrote

Hello all,

Anyone have any recommendations on any resources that show on how to read output
from factor analysis from SPSS?

I looked at the tutorial on SPSS and it has helped me some.

My online research only guided me to more on theory of PCA, than reading outputs
and actually making sure I clicked on the righ dialog boxes in SPSS.


My syntax so far from the tutorial is below:

FACTOR
  /VARIABLES Eincomegroup Ewealthgroup_revised Eassetsgroup
  /MISSING LISTWISE
  /ANALYSIS Eincomegroup Ewealthgroup_revised Eassetsgroup
  /SELECT=schoolfeeding(1)
  /PRINT UNIVARIATE INITIAL CORRELATION SIG EXTRACTION ROTATION FSCORE
  /PLOT EIGEN
  /CRITERIA MINEIGEN(1) ITERATE(25)
  /EXTRACTION PC
  /CRITERIA ITERATE(25)
  /ROTATION VARIMAX
  /SAVE REG(ALL)
  /METHOD=CORRELATION.


Thanks again,
Deepa

http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/PA765/factoroutput.htm

[mpirritano]

Tabachnick & Fidell is a great resource.

 

http://www.ablongman.com/tabachnick/stats/index.html

 

 

Matthew Pirritano, Ph.D.

Research Analyst IV

Medical Services Initiative (MSI)

Orange County Health Care Agency

[phone]

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Subject: reading principal component analysis output

 

Hello all,

 

Anyone have any recommendations on any resources that show on how to read output from factor analysis from SPSS?

I looked at the tutorial on SPSS and it has helped me some.

 

My online research only guided me to more on theory of PCA, than reading outputs and actually making sure I clicked on the righ dialog boxes in SPSS.

 

My syntax so far from the tutorial is below:

 

FACTOR
  /VARIABLES Eincomegroup Ewealthgroup_revised Eassetsgroup
  /MISSING LISTWISE
  /ANALYSIS Eincomegroup Ewealthgroup_revised Eassetsgroup
  /SELECT=schoolfeeding(1)
  /PRINT UNIVARIATE INITIAL CORRELATION SIG EXTRACTION ROTATION FSCORE
  /PLOT EIGEN
  /CRITERIA MINEIGEN(1) ITERATE(25)
  /EXTRACTION PC
  /CRITERIA ITERATE(25)
  /ROTATION VARIMAX
  /SAVE REG(ALL)
  /METHOD=CORRELATION.

 

Thanks again,
Deepa