Re: [R] Bayesian PCA

2011-04-12 Thread William Revelle
Dear Lucy, You might consider some of the scale construction techniques available in the psych package. In particular, the iclust function is meant for this very problem: how to form reliable item composites. Bill At 4:38 PM +0100 4/12/11, Christian Hennig wrote: Dear Lucy, not an R-rel

Re: [R] Bayesian PCA

2011-04-12 Thread Christian Hennig
Dear Lucy, not an R-related response at all, but if it's questionnaire data, I'd probably try to do dimension reduction in a non-automated way by defining a number of 10 or so meaningful scores that summarise your questions. Dimension reduction is essentially about how to aggregate the given i

[R] Bayesian PCA

2011-04-12 Thread Lucy Asher
First of all I should say this email is more of a general statistics questions rather than being specific to using R but I'm hoping that this may be of general interest. I have a dataset that I would really like to use PCA on and have been using the package pcaMethods to examine my data. The re