Factor analysis

[Lopa2016]

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

[WarrenKuhfeld · Accepted solution]

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;