Stephen Soldz () (Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis)
Abstract
Velicer (1976) proposed that, when conducting principal components analysis as a version of factor analysis, the number of components one should extract is that at which the average partial correlation of the variables, after partialling out m principal components, would be a minimum. minap calculates this minimum average partial correlation. It can take as input either a variable list or a correlation matrix.
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Software component provided by Boston College Department of Economics in its series Statistical Software Components with number
S429601.
Size: Programming language: Stata Requires: Stata version 7.0 Date of creation: 08 Nov 2002 Date of revision:
12 Nov 2002 Handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s429601
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