Re: Doing EFA after multiple imputation

Posted by ziweiguan on Jul 17, 2015; 3:53am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Doing-EFA-after-multiple-imputation-tp5730158p5730167.html

Hi Bruce

Thank you. This afternoon I downloaded your macro and syntax file and gave a try. Very nice. The result I got is basically the same when I used only complete cases. I only have <0.2% missing.

Bruce Weaver wrote

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.