Date:         Wed, 12 Feb 1997 18:36:39 GMT
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Subject:      Re: Confirmatory Factor Analysis - CALIS (need assistance)

Original query follows reply.
 
Larry Hatcher's book, A step-by-step approach to using the SAS System for
Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling, has several chapters on how
to set up various kinds of PROC CALIS analyses.  Well worth having if you're
unsure of syntax.
 
Christina M. Gullion, PhD
Biostatistician
Department of Clinical Research
Columbia Hospital at Medical City Dallas
 
In article <01bc0ed3$0f0b5320$7006da80@bgore>, "Bob Gore" <BGore@psg.ucsf.edu>
writes:
 
>Subject:       Re:  Confirmatory Factor Analysis - CALIS (need assistance)
>From:  "Bob Gore" <BGore@psg.ucsf.edu>
>Date:  30 Jan 1997 17:26:08 GMT
>
>I'm trying to do a confirmatory factor analysis in SAS.  I've been
>attempting to use PROC CALIS, I'm having trouble getting my code to run.
>There are about 45 items which (in theory) should load on three factors. I
>have no a priori basis for predicting a particular degree of correlation
>among the factors, but I do not expect them to be orthogonal.  I have
>already entered the weights to be applied to individual test items, as a
>matrix.  SAS seems to want something more, and in the manual there are
>other matrices that need to be entered.  Does anyone have a working piece
>of SAS code to do a first-order confirmatory factor analysis under SAS
>they'd be willing to share?  I would be VERY appreciative.  Thanks.
>
>Robert Gore, M.A.
>Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
>UCSF
>
>