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 Does the component matrix of a principal component analysis show the standardized factor loadings?

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Alessandro Vetrano's profile image
Alessandro Vetrano posted Wed April 30, 2025 06:26 AM

I have SPSS in a language other than English, so I am not sure where the standardized factor loadings are shown.

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Gunilla Rudander posted Tue May 06, 2025 05:12 AM  Best Answer

If you are running the command: "Analyze - Dimension Reduction - Factor" (recommend to choose the method: Varimax Rotation) then the standardized factor loadings are shown in both the "Component Matrix" and in the "Rotated Matrix" within the output window. The difference between these 2 matrix is that the Rotated Matrix has a rotated solution, so you can see the groupings more clearly. Do you mean that you don't get any output with these loadings? If you don't see any matrix, have a look if you have got any iteration warning in the end of the output - in such case  you can increase that number of iterations. /Gunilla

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David Dwyer posted Wed April 30, 2025 01:41 PM

Hi @Alessandro Vetrano,

Are you saying that you have an output file only (*.spv)?  If you have IBM SPSS Statistics installed, have access to the data, and access to the underlying command syntax, then you should be able to run and re-run the analysis.  If you are able to do all of that, then use the "Edit -> Options" menus and "Language" tab to set the SPSS Statistics interface and output to English.

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Alessandro Vetrano posted Sat May 03, 2025 10:17 AM

I have already changed the language, but they are not shown, so I would like to know where SPSS shows the standardized factor loadings.

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Alessandro Vetrano posted Tue May 06, 2025 03:16 PM

Yes, I just wanted to know if the component matrix shows the standardized factor loadings.

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