FTR, The regression procedure does contain an option to save the scores, but it's not that hard to just create a compute statement:
compute yhat = -2.4567 + X1 * 0.2348 + X2 * (-2.4500). Or whatever. I don't deny that factor scores can be useful and my understanding is that they are more complex to compute but I have not ever used factor scores because I almost always want to know what a real score is, not a factor score. That is, if I have a measure and find that items 1, 2, 3, all measure factor 1, I DO NOT want the F1 score (usually), I want the score one those three items, which is also trivial to create: * assume items 1 and 3 are revrse-coded. All variables are on a 5-point likert. compute V1R = 6 - V1. compute V3R = 6 - V3. compute F1 = mean(V1R, V2, V3R)*3. So, your statement that EFA is worthless unless you can save the factor scores is incorrect. -Alan On 1/6/2016 4:35 PM, news wrote: > Saving factor scores would be a very welcomed innovation. What is the > sense of factor analysis if you can't reuse the scores ? > The same is true of regression scores. > > - ftr > > On 04/01/2016 21:19, Alan Mead wrote: >> I don't think PSPP has an option to save factor scores (yet): >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/FACTOR.html >> >> -Alan >> >> >> On 1/3/2016 9:07 AM, Justo de Jorge Moreno wrote: >>> Dear list >>> I am new to PSPP. As I can save the factors estimated with the >>> factor analysis? >>> Many thanks in advance >>> Justo >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pspp-users mailing list >>> Pspp-users@gnu.org >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users >> >> -- >> >> Alan D. Mead, Ph.D. >> President, Talent Algorithms Inc. >> >> science + technology = better workers >> >> +815.588.3846 (Office) >> +267.334.4143 (Mobile) >> >> http://www.alanmead.org >> >> Announcing the Journal of Computerized Adaptive Testing (JCAT), a >> peer-reviewed electronic journal designed to advance the science and >> practice of computerized adaptive testing: http://www.iacat.org/jcat >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pspp-users mailing list >> Pspp-users@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > Pspp-users@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users -- Alan D. Mead, Ph.D. President, Talent Algorithms Inc. science + technology = better workers +815.588.3846 (Office) +267.334.4143 (Mobile) http://www.alanmead.org Announcing the Journal of Computerized Adaptive Testing (JCAT), a peer-reviewed electronic journal designed to advance the science and practice of computerized adaptive testing: http://www.iacat.org/jcat
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