-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
> I ran factor analysis using R and SAS. However, I had different outputs from > R and SAS. > Why they provide different outputs? Especially, the factor loadings are > different. > I did real dataset(n=264), however, I had an extremely different from R and > SAS. > Why this things happened? Which software is correct on? factanal uses ML-method for estimating the loadings. SAS and SPSS use the principal component method. Maybe you should better use princomp + varimax. However, the rotated solutions are basically the same :) Yours sincerely Sigbert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ0gWdWvYUYQkj1zkRAi/NAJ9gHEcXbYzafE9MEbL8ZnCY/B8inwCeORuB 0vQ81ucg86IrkJl+EJSP1n0= =lDR6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
