Re: Principal components analysis + regression?

Posted by cynicalflyer on Aug 26, 2014; 5:41pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Principal-components-analysis-regression-tp5727080p5727082.html

1) I have a survey that consisted of 31 questions, administered to each of the 50 states.

2) I'm not even sure what this is asking. My data is as follows

	State control over X	State control over Y	State control over Z
Alabama	1	2	3
Alaska	2	2	3
Arizona	2	2	3

In SPSS I Analyze -> Dimension Reduction -> Factor -> Variables where Variables were "State control over X", "State control over Y", "State control over Z", and so on with a total of 31 variables.

3) I'll recode it the other way.

4) I'll look at simple Pearson r between my dependent variable and the *all* of the component scores.