Re: Question on INCLUDE instruction when managing missing data in a FACTOR ANALYSIS

Posted by Jon Peck on Dec 05, 2018; 8:04pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Question-on-INCLUDE-instruction-when-managing-missing-data-in-a-FACTOR-ANALYSIS-tp5737094p5737098.html

You are putting more on INCLUDE than it can bear.  All that INCLUDE=YES means is that values marked as user missing are treated as valid and included in the analysis as regular values.  (System missing values are always excluded).

This generally does not make sense for continuous variables.  You can impute values with the MVA procedure, but multiple imputation is not supported in the FACTOR procedure.

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 11:27 AM Poba-Nzaou, Placide <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dear All,              

I am conducting factor analysis with missing data and would like to treat missing data as MAR (missing at random). I have a question how SPSS procedure FACTOR handles missing data in the subcommand « missing INCLUDE » .  It is based on assumption MAR? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

Regards,

Placide

 

Placide Poba-Nzaou

Associate Professor,

University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, Canada

 

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