Re: Factor analysis - which package is best for Windows?
you may wish to consider NCSS (they have a web site) provides essentially the same output as SAS but is run from templates not SAS language. Less expensive, good documentation, excellant support. However does not provide an audit trail--a necessary feature for some governmental / legal groups. PeterOut wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Magill, Brett) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Also check out R, a GNU implementation of the S language, most prominently known through its use in S-Plus. R is a fully featured statisitical programming environment. In its MVA (Multivariate) package, it includes routines for factor analysis using maximum liklihood estimation with varimax and promax rotations. I have installed R1.3.0 on my Windows system and have noted that MVA is an add-on. The FAQ tells how to obtain these add-ons but only for UNIX. Is this add-on actually available for Windows? If so, how do I obtain it? Thanks, Peter = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Re: Factor analysis - which package is best for Windows?
UNESCO IDAMS team would be very pleased to collect your comments about WinIDAMS Factor Analysis procedure and any matters regarding the software. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Wright) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I can't say whether it any good, let alone the best. But I have just seen the following on an archaeological post. UNESCO has released WinIDAMS 1.0 for 32-bit Windows operating system. WinIDAMS is a freeware software package for numerical information processing and statistical analysis. It provides a complete set of data manipulation and validation facilities and a wide range of classical and advanced statistical techniques, including interactive construction of multidimensional tables, graphical exploration of data and time series analysis. You can find more information at the following url: http://www.unesco.org/idams I have checked the URL. It does offer factor analysis. Richard Wright = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
RE: Factor analysis - which package is best for Windows?
MVA comes with R base. However, it is a seperate library. Libraries that are not sent with base are available in Windows binaries on CRAN, but you do not have to worry about that for MVA. Type: library() and you will get a list of the available packages. To make MVA available (i.e. load it), type: library(mva) then you can ask for, for example: help (factanal) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Factor analysis - which package is best for Windows? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Magill, Brett) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Also check out R, a GNU implementation of the S language, most prominently known through its use in S-Plus. R is a fully featured statisitical programming environment. In its MVA (Multivariate) package, it includes routines for factor analysis using maximum liklihood estimation with varimax and promax rotations. I have installed R1.3.0 on my Windows system and have noted that MVA is an add-on. The FAQ tells how to obtain these add-ons but only for UNIX. Is this add-on actually available for Windows? If so, how do I obtain it? Thanks, Peter = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ = = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Re: Factor analysis - which package is best for Windows?
I can't say whether it any good, let alone the best. But I have just seen the following on an archaeological post. UNESCO has released WinIDAMS 1.0 for 32-bit Windows operating system. WinIDAMS is a freeware software package for numerical information processing and statistical analysis. It provides a complete set of data manipulation and validation facilities and a wide range of classical and advanced statistical techniques, including interactive construction of multidimensional tables, graphical exploration of data and time series analysis. You can find more information at the following url: http://www.unesco.org/idams I have checked the URL. It does offer factor analysis. Richard Wright = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Re: Factor analysis - which package is best for Windows?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Magill, Brett) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Also check out R, a GNU implementation of the S language, most prominently known through its use in S-Plus. R is a fully featured statisitical programming environment. In its MVA (Multivariate) package, it includes routines for factor analysis using maximum liklihood estimation with varimax and promax rotations. I have installed R1.3.0 on my Windows system and have noted that MVA is an add-on. The FAQ tells how to obtain these add-ons but only for UNIX. Is this add-on actually available for Windows? If so, how do I obtain it? Thanks, Peter = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Re: Factor analysis - which package is best for Windows?
Aron Landy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Problem is, SAS costs about $20,000 whereas CVF IMSL come bundled for $800 Aron John Uebersax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... [snipped] -- Aron Landy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:3b8b6418$0$8507$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Any ideas, anyone? I am thinking of using IMSL (which comes free with Compaq Visual Fortran). Can I do better? Aron Landy See R which is free and includes all the matrix manipulation functions that you will probably require. http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/ -- Good luck, Jerry Harder remove spamnein from address to reply = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Re: Factor analysis - which package is best for Windows?
Thanks for the tip on KyPlot. It does seem very nice. Two questions: 1. As best I can tell, the Factor Analysis routines work off a correlation or covariance matrix. At least from a perusal of the Help index, I can't see how to run Factor Analysis from raw data, or to calculate a correlation/covariance matrix from raw data (short of applying matrix manipulations). Is there a way to produce a corr/cov matrix within KyPlot? 2. Does anyone know the current homepage for KyPlot? Thanks John Uebersax, PhD (805) 384-7688 Thousand Oaks, California (805) 383-1726 (fax) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Agreement Stats: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jsuebersax/agree.htm Latent Structure: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jsuebersax Existential Psych: http://members.aol.com/spiritualpsych [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Wright) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... KyPlot runs under Windows, is freeware and gives you several factor analysis algorithms to choose from. http://www.rocketdownload.com/Details/Math/kyplot.htm = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Re: Factor analysis - which package is best for Windows?
I have tried it and it is amazing. A bargain ;) Richard Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... KyPlot runs under Windows, is freeware and gives you several factor analysis algorithms to choose from. http://www.rocketdownload.com/Details/Math/kyplot.htm = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
RE: Factor analysis - which package is best for Windows?
Also check out R, a GNU implementation of the S language, most prominently known through its use in S-Plus. R is a fully featured statisitical programming environment. In its MVA (Multivariate) package, it includes routines for factor analysis using maximum liklihood estimation with varimax and promax rotations. R is open-source, which means that it is frequently updated and, most importantly, it can be downloaded free of charge. The only downside (to some) is that at this stage of its development R is completely command-prompt driven. However, I find the R language intuitive and easy to learn. http://www.r-project.org -Original Message- From: Aron Landy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 6:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Factor analysis - which package is best for Windows? I have tried it and it is amazing. A bargain ;) Richard Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... KyPlot runs under Windows, is freeware and gives you several factor analysis algorithms to choose from. http://www.rocketdownload.com/Details/Math/kyplot.htm = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ = = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Re: Factor analysis - which package is best for Windows?
KyPlot runs under Windows, is freeware and gives you several factor analysis algorithms to choose from. http://www.rocketdownload.com/Details/Math/kyplot.htm On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:59:44 +0100, Aron Landy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is, SAS costs about $20,000 whereas CVF IMSL come bundled for $800 Aron = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Factor analysis - which package is best for Windows?
Any ideas, anyone? I am thinking of using IMSL (which comes free with Compaq Visual Fortran). Can I do better? Aron Landy = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Re: Factor analysis - which package is best for Windows?
Aron Landy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 3b8b6418$0$8507$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:3b8b6418$0$8507$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Any ideas, anyone? I am thinking of using IMSL (which comes free with Compaq Visual Fortran). Can I do better? Any of the standard statistical packages should be fine (e.g. SPSS, SAS, S-Plus, Statistica, Minitab). All have Windows versions, and all have different types of site licenses. If you are a student, you may be able to get a student discount on the statistical software through your educational institute. You may also be able to locate a demonstration version, although you would then have problems once the evaluation period ended (e.g. inability to open the package-specific files). I just recommend going with a package that statisticians use, then you know that the results produced are accurate. Your choice of package will possibly be constrained by the ease of use of the package (and even when you can programme, a menu system can still be much more rapid). I've not heard of ISML, but then I'm not a Fortran programmer (SPSS syntax, SAS, and VBA are my limits - but about to learn Sax!!!). Hope this helps, and good luck with your analysis! :-) cheers Michelle = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
