Obtaining factor scores with inputed matrix

Posted by polisonica on Oct 31, 2012; 1:28pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Obtaining-factor-scores-with-inputed-matrix-tp5715966.html

I am running EFA with SPSS using a polychoric correlation matrix. The factor analysis runs perfectly until I ask the program to save the factor scores. Then an error appears: "Factor scores cannot be computed with matrix input."
Has anyone enountered this problem before? Is there any walk-around? I know I can calculate the factor scores myself, but do not feel confident about it since most of my variables are categorical and have very different sdv.