topic Re: Factor analysis in SAS Data Science

Factor analysis

Lopa2016 — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 15:24:28 GMT

Hi ,

I have a dataset of 3000 observations but the number of variables I want to run factor analysis on is more than 1000 based on which I want to create factors. Will SAS be capable of performing factor analysis on so many variables in one shot or is there some other way out?

Thanks in advance

Re: Factor analysis

WarrenKuhfeld — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 17:26:04 GMT

Just worked for me with no problem. I suppose the answer depends on how much memory and other resources you have. It takes a few minutes to display all of the output. The computations are pretty fast.


data x;
   array x[1000];
   do i = 1 to 3000;
      do j = 1 to 1000;
         x[j] = normal(104);
      end;
      output;
   end;
run;
   
proc factor;
run;