Re: [R] KMO sampling adequacy and SPSS -- partial solution

2007-08-06 Thread G. Jay Kerns
Hello, This is in response to a post from a couple of years back regarding Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measures of Sampling Adequacy. (http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/12/17233.html) As it turns out, last year Trujillo-Ortiz et al. at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California wrote and posted

[R] KMO sampling adequacy and SPSS -- partial solution

2005-12-07 Thread Ashish Ranpura
Dear colleagues, I've been searching for information on the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) Measure of Sampling Adequacy (MSA). This statistic is generated in SPSS and is often used to determine if a dataset is appropriate for factor analysis -- it's true utility seems quite low, but it seems to

Re: [R] KMO sampling adequacy and SPSS -- partial solution

2005-12-07 Thread Ashish Ranpura
Sorry, there was an error in that function, a hangover from a previous session. The corrected function is: kmo.test - function(df){ ### ## Calculate the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy. ## Input should be a data frame or matrix, output is the KMO statistic. ## Formula derived