I'm no expert in this routine, but there are some things PSPP still can not
do.
If you want to learn more about it, please check the documentation.

https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/pspp.html#FACTOR


2013/8/25 Mark Levine <[email protected]>

> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't find an option to output
> factor scores in the FACTOR routine, as the regression routine outputs
> predicted values/residuals. Am I missing something?
>
> There are several different approaches but the Thurstone approach is
> pretty common and the matrix algebra (as I remember) not too tricky. I can
> find the matrix equations if that would help someone with coding chops.
>
> Short of that, I can approximate factor scores by summing/weighting scores
> on the key loading variables of each factor (transformed to standardized
> form).
>
> Is there a simpler/better approach?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
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