Application: Factor Score Estimation
Now, let’s
walk through an example to demonstrate some of the challenges and
issues associated with the estimation of factor scores. We use the
following syntax to run our factor analysis for the engineering data,
to output a data set called factor_scores1 containing the predefined
SAS factor scores (based on the standardized scoring coefficients)
for each individual, to output a data set called Results that contains
the pattern loading and standardized scoring coefficients along with
other summary results, and to output a table containing the standardized
scoring coefficients. The two output data sets and the summary table
were requested by adding the
OUT=, OUTSTAT=,
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