An SPSSR -Menu for Ordinal Factor Analysis
Exploratory factor analysis is a widely used statistical technique in the social sciences. It attempts to identify underlying factors that explain the pattern of correlations within a set of observed variables. A statistical software package is needed to perform the calculations. However, there are...
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| description | Exploratory factor analysis is a widely used statistical technique in the social sciences. It attempts to identify underlying factors that explain the pattern of correlations within a set of observed variables. A statistical software package is needed to perform the calculations. However, there are some limitations with popular statistical software packages, like SPSS. The R programming language is a free software package for statistical and graphical computing. It offers many packages written by contributors from all over the world and programming resources that allow it to overcome the dialog limitations of SPSS. This paper offers an SPSS dialog written in theR programming language with the help of some packages, so that researchers with little or no knowledge in programming, or those who are accustomed to making their calculations based on statistical dialogs, have more options when applying factor analysis to their data and hence can adopt a better approach when dealing with ordinal, Likert-type data. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-103da943a53142919ce6241060227f7d2022-12-21T23:26:35ZengFoundation for Open Access StatisticsJournal of Statistical Software1548-76602012-01-01464An SPSSR -Menu for Ordinal Factor AnalysisMario BastoJose Manuel PereiraExploratory factor analysis is a widely used statistical technique in the social sciences. It attempts to identify underlying factors that explain the pattern of correlations within a set of observed variables. A statistical software package is needed to perform the calculations. However, there are some limitations with popular statistical software packages, like SPSS. The R programming language is a free software package for statistical and graphical computing. It offers many packages written by contributors from all over the world and programming resources that allow it to overcome the dialog limitations of SPSS. This paper offers an SPSS dialog written in theR programming language with the help of some packages, so that researchers with little or no knowledge in programming, or those who are accustomed to making their calculations based on statistical dialogs, have more options when applying factor analysis to their data and hence can adopt a better approach when dealing with ordinal, Likert-type data.http://www.jstatsoft.org/v46/i04/paperpolychoric correlationsprincipal component analysisfactor analysisinternal reliability |
| spellingShingle | Mario Basto Jose Manuel Pereira An SPSSR -Menu for Ordinal Factor Analysis Journal of Statistical Software polychoric correlations principal component analysis factor analysis internal reliability |
| title | An SPSSR -Menu for Ordinal Factor Analysis |
| title_full | An SPSSR -Menu for Ordinal Factor Analysis |
| title_fullStr | An SPSSR -Menu for Ordinal Factor Analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | An SPSSR -Menu for Ordinal Factor Analysis |
| title_short | An SPSSR -Menu for Ordinal Factor Analysis |
| title_sort | spssr menu for ordinal factor analysis |
| topic | polychoric correlations principal component analysis factor analysis internal reliability |
| url | http://www.jstatsoft.org/v46/i04/paper |
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