Re: Factor Analysis Promax

[Dr. Oliver Walter]

Hello, Mr Hammer,

Promax is an olique rotation method, i.e. the factors can be correlated after rotation. Then loadings of items on factors and correlations of items with factors are different from each other. Hence, there are two matrices of coefficients: the structure matrix, i.e. the matrix of correlations of items with factors, and the pattern matrix, i.e. the matrix of loadings of items on factors. With uncorrelated factors both matrices are the same and only one of them has to be printed. 

The sum of squared loadings is not meaningful with correlated factors. With uncorrelated factors the sum of squared loadings of a factor indicates the proportion of variance explained by a factor, but not with correlated factors.

Kind regards,

Dr. Oliver Walter

Am 13.04.2024 um 22:20 schrieb Andreas Hammer:

Hello,

The manual specifies Promax as a rotation method for the factor analysis. I cannot call up this method via the menu. If I enter it via the syntax, a factor analysis can be run - but in my dataset:

1) the sum of squared loadings is not calculated, 

2) instead of a rotated matrix I get a "pattern matrix (Mustermatrix)". Maybe it's the same?

With Varimax there is no problem.

What have I overlooked?

Thank you.

Kind regards

Andreas Hammer

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Syntax like this:

FACTOR
    /VARIABLES= WW02_29 WW02_02 WW02_03 WW02_30 [and more items, totaly 64]
    /CRITERIA = MINEIGEN (1) ITERATE (25)
    /EXTRACTION =PAF
    /METHOD = CORRELATION
    /PLOT = EIGEN
    /PRINT = INITIAL EXTRACTION ROTATION SIG AIC KMO
    /CRITERIA = ITERATE (25)
    /ROTATION = VARIMAX.