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Re: Factor Analysis for non-metric variables

Posted by J P-6 on Jul 13, 2012; 5:01pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Factor-Analysis-for-non-metric-variables-tp5714188p5714204.html

Afraid you need to upgrade to MPlus http://www.statmodel.com/ or LISREL.
 
From: christina0822 <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 7:51 AM
Subject: Factor Analysis for non-metric variables

Dear All:

I am now struggling with my MSc dissertation and there are two problems with
Factor Analysis now. The first one is how can I include non-metric variables
into FA, like Gender, Marital status, occupation, residential area,etc? The
other one is every time I tried KMO and Barlett's test , the output never
show up. there is an notification under the correlation matrix: "the matrix
is not positive definite" I don't know what's the meaning for that. And How
can I solve these two problems? Or anyone can kindly see my output result, I
will send it to you.

Many Thanks

Christina

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