Hi again Bruce:

I didn't realise I had opened the wrong syntax file. Here is the syntax you wanted.

* FACTOR ANALYSIS FOR 8 PHYSICAL MEASURES IN 305 * GIRLS AGED 7-17 YEARS (HARMAN). * FROM VARIMAX TO OBLIMIN ROTATION.

* (1) Data entry from 2 VARIMAX factors *. * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. * Loadings come from the output of the syntax I sent before.

DATA LIST LIST/ROWTYPE_(A8) FACTOR_(F2.0) var1(F10.7) var2(F10.7) var3(F10.7) var4(F10.7) var5(F10.7) var6(F10.7) var7(F10.7) var8(F10.7). BEGIN DATA FACTOR 1 .8998249 .9298298 .9190557 .8991817 .2507408 .1806326 .1068324 .2508978 FACTOR 2 .2598761 .1954690 .1638303 .2294510 .8871295 .8404494 .8402843 .7495850 END DATA.

* ROWTYPE_ must be called this way and has to be (A8).

VARIABLE LABEL VAR1 'HEIGHT' /VAR2 'ARM SPAN' /VAR3 'LENGTH OF FOREARM' /VAR4 'LENGTH OF LOWER LEG' /VAR5 'WEIGHT' /VAR6 'BITROCHANTERIC DIAMETER' /VAR7 'CHEST GIRTH' /VAR8 'CHEST WID'.

* (2) Factor analysis with other rotation *. * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. FACTOR /MATRIX= IN(FAC=*) /ANALYSIS var1 to var8 /FORMAT SORT BLANK(0.3) /PRINT ROTATION /CRITERIA ITERATE(25) /ROTATION oblimin .

HTH

Marta Garcia-Granero

Bruce Thompson ha escrito:

> I would like to input a factor pattern matrix from an article into SPSS > using the SPSS command "FACTOR MATRIX=IN(FAC= )", and then rotate this > matrix using an algorithm different than that used by the Au. The SPSS > Manual is too obscure to follow on how to do this. > Anybody have any suggestions or an example syntax? Thanks! > > Bruce Thompson > > "What Future Quant Soc Science Could Look Like..." > http://www.aera.net/pubs/er/pdf/vol31_03/aera310309.pdf > > http://www.coe.tamu.edu/~bthompson