Last week I wrote a bit about how to get an exploratory factor analysis using Mplus. The question now, is what does that output MEAN ? First, you just get some information on the programming statements or defaults that produced your output: INPUT READING TERMINATED NORMALLY Exploratory Factor Analysis ; SUMMARY OF ANALYSIS Number of…
Previously, I discussed how to do a confirmatory factor analysis with Mplus. What if you aren’t sure what variables should load on what factor? Then you are doing an exploratory factor analysis. Really, you should probably do the exploratory factor analysis first unless you have some very large body of research behind you saying that…
Someone had a question about factor analysis with Mplus and even though it is not a piece of software I work with normally, we aim to please at The Julia Group, so I downloaded the demo version and away I went. It truly was, as my granddaughter says, easy-peasy lemon squeezie. You might not think…
If that sounds like total marketing b.s. to you, I can’t blame you — download this app and supermodels will throw themselves at you with thousand dollar bills in their teeth. Well, no super models are provided but the SAS Web Editor really *will* write your code for you in the latest version soon to…
Trying this live blogging from SAS Global Forum again. The title kind of says it PROC QUANTLIFE new procedure in SAS 9.3 Why DO we need a new procedure for survival analysis? ====== Survival analysis used to analyze time-to-event data already had procs lifetes, lifereg & phreg ======== Lifereg is fine if you have IID…
Here is my first attempt at live blogging on my new iPad and my first effort with the WordPress app. Peter Eberhardt doing a Hands-On workshop at SAS Global Forum. It’s standing room only well it would be standing room only if they let you stand. It’s actually full & they are going to turn…
I’m always a bit bemused when people refer to me as a “SAS expert”. I don’t think of myself as an expert at anything except, perhaps, bricolage, a word I am indebted to sascommunity.org for even being aware of its existence. Merriam-Webster defines it as: : construction (as of a sculpture or a structure of…
I haven’t been using Enterprise Guide much lately but tonight I could not get the SAS Web Editor to work and I had some graphs I needed to get done. It was convenient to do this with SAS Enterprise Guide because I wanted to do bar charts of the mean of one variable broken down…
In a Dilbert cartoon, the pointy-haired boss tells Dilbert, We need to give our customers what they want. To which Dilbert replies What our customers want is better products for free. Upon reflection, Dilbert and the boss agree to give them a fish bowl screensaver It has been said before that SAS is just offering…
In new product development, in research, you WILL go down some dead ends. Accept it.