Re: Doing EFA after multiple imputation

Posted by Bruce Weaver on Jul 16, 2015; 10:38pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Doing-EFA-after-multiple-imputation-tp5730158p5730166.html

IMO, you should not use the values imputed by MVA, either with or without random error added to the imputed values.  For what you want to do, just use the matrix of EM covariances (or correlations) as input to the FACTOR command.  

ziweiguan wrote

Hi David

Thank you for your input. Would you please explain a little bit more how to use the compute / rv.normal to add random errors to the EM output data set? Thanks!

David Marso wrote

1. See RV.NORMAL function under COMPUTE command.
2. See MATRIX subcommand under FACTOR command.
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