SURROG: Stata module to compute surrogate variables after factor analysis

Malte Hoffmann

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: From the rotated loading matrix the program picks for each factor the surrogate variable, i.e. the variable with the highest absolute loading on the factor and displays the names of the selected variables afterwards. The program simplifys work and reduces errors if one for instance works with many variables or runs several factor analyses over comlumns of imputed data and wants check whether the set of same surrogate variables are chosen in each imputation. Please remember that the program hitherto only works with rotated matrices.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 11.2
Keywords: factor analysis; factor loadings; surrogate variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-01-14, Revised 2014-02-20
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install surrog". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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