Re: Tips on Posting questions to the SPSS list.

Posted by bilal khalid on
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This is Bilal Khalid. I am doing research work in the field of Construction Engineering and Management. The Statistical analyses techniques which I am using are confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) along with structure equation Modelling (SEM). Initially I started with PCA to shrink my factor List (I had 3 Principle categories in which 26 sub categories are there along with 106 variables/statements in sub categories). Finally i have 9 factors in which 29 variables/statements are there. Now, Project my supervisor suggests me to go with Principle Axis factoring technique because he is not satisfied with the final outputs of PCA. My 1st question is, should i go with PAF again to validate my factor results? if yes then kindly mention here some link which can help me in understanding the basics of PAF and also the threshold values of outputs of PAF.

Regards,
Bilal Khalid
Urban & Infrastructure Engineering department,
NED University of Engineering & Technology.