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- From: peck@spss.com (Kim Peck)
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- Subject: Re: SPSS-Windows - some questions
- Keywords: windows spss
- Message-ID: <C052o9.9Cr@spss.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:40:56 GMT
- References: <C012zA.Lpz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C012zA.Lpz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, edonchin@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Emanuel Donchin) writes:
- > A case in point: I am analyzing timeseries data with 150 variables per
- > case. I perform a principal component analysis on the data and get long
- > lists of factor loadings and so on. It is important for me to visualize
- > the factor loadings plotted against the variables. This means I should
- > be able to get the printout of the factor loadings (what the program
- > calls the factor-solution) into a plotting program. There is, however,
- > no simple way within Spss to do so.
- >
- > Copying the printout and pasting it into the data worksheet does not
- > seem to work. Though, cutting and pasting the same data into Excel 4.0
- > does work fine.
-
- It's easy to get output into data that can be plotted. Mark the
- rectangle containing the desired columns of data with the mouse. Use
- Edit/Copy Table. Choose a new column in the Data Editor. Paste. Then
- the data can be plotted or used as variables as desired.
-
- It's also the case, however, that factor loadings can be plotted
- directly by the Factor procedure. SPSS for Windows will do a 3-d
- plot for the first three factors if you check the "Loading plots"
- checkbox on the Rotation sub-dialog. All the factor loadings are
- available in the Displayed Data dialog in the Graphics Editor if you
- want to make other loading plots. Points are labelled with the variable
- label by default, which you can control in the graph. You can also
- draw lines to the floor of a 3-d plot or to the centroid or origin.
- >
- > One other difficulty: The program would not perform the PCA on all 150
- > variables claiming insufficient memory. As I have 16 meg of RAM on my
- > system, 8 of which were free for use, it is not clear how spss managed
- > not to find enough memory for its operations.
-
- When you install SPSS for Windows, it asks you what size workspace you want
- as a default. You can change this later on the Edit/Preferences menu, where
- it is called Working Memory. You can make this as big as your virtual
- memory will accommodate, but the default SPSS supplies is small since that
- suffices for many users and workspace competes with code space for memory.
- As with any program running in virtual memory, the more you overcommit
- real memory, the more the memory is likely to be swapped to disk, and
- the slower the program is likely to run.
-