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

Posted by Bruce Weaver on Dec 05, 2018; 9:39pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Question-on-INCLUDE-instruction-when-managing-missing-data-in-a-FACTOR-ANALYSIS-tp5737094p5737101.html

Hello Placide.  You could use MVA to generate a matrix of EM correlations (or
covariances), and use that matrix as input to the FACTOR command.
Unfortunately, MVA does not have a /MATRIX sub-command to facilitate this.
But my colleague Hillary Maxwell and I wrote a couple macros to do that job.
See the links below for details.

https://sites.google.com/a/lakeheadu.ca/bweaver/Home/statistics/spss/my-spss-page/emcorr
http://tqmp.org/Content/vol10-2/p143/p143.pdf

HTH.



Poba-Nzaou 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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