Fawad, I'm an undergraduate trying to propose a scale development study for my senior thesis. Thank you so much. WIth no prior teaching on this, I was able to understand very easily with an undergraduate level of statistics knowledge. You made so many of the papers I'm using for research comprehensible. You are doing great work and I am very grateful. Resources like this are so helpful. Thank you thank you thank you
sir hats off to u...doing a great job.....all videos are worth watching as it has simple to understand material...thank you ..best wishes from punjab (amritsar)
Excellent explanations and demonstration. It is really helpful. I will share the link that you provided with my students to get a better understanding.
Dear Fawad, thank you very much for all your videos here on RU-vid. They have made a significant difference for me as I am a practitioner who has decided to embark on his journey of research without any prior background in science. Without your videos, I would have been lost. Thanks again and keep up the great work. Greetings from Switzerland!
It's not about liking, but it's all about concept clearance. For last three months I have gone through many RU-vid channel regarding factor analysis, even I had already been through your channel before. As I got this video, I got clear idea about it. I will definitely recommend others to go through it for concept clearance.
Thanks for watching. That will have to be done manually. You can put in the loadings values into the calculate available on the website (Under Excel Sheet). researchwithfawad.com/index.php/download-research-resources/
Great video, just need a bit more clarity on the sample size though. Given that you have 19 items/observed variables in this demo , I would presume (based on the rule of thumb described here), that you had anywhere around 19*4 or 5 sample size for this video, which is quite large for a pilot study or questionnaire validation. Would greatly appreciate if you could clarify this bit, thanks!
Thank you Dr. Fawad for the wonderful video which was very much helpful. Appreciate it if you could clarify whether it is ok to try running EFA with different fix factor numbers when no meaningful results could be obtained running EFA without specifying any predefined factor number.
Thanks. I am glad you liked it. If you are using an existing scale, no need for EFA. Instead of fixing the factors, first try to do EFA on individual factors this will help clean the factors.
Hello sir. First of all i would like to appreciate ur video. This video is one of the informative one. Sir, can u plz tell me that if KMO value is 0.705, is it consider appropriate ? As u mentioned in ur report that MSA values above 0.800 are consider appropriate for factor analysis. Help me with this sir. Thanks regards.
Greetings Dr. I have adopted questionnaire items from well-established studies and I have translated the questionnaire to Malay Language through the use of certified translators. My question is, should I conduct EFA? Or can I just proceed with the analysis in PLS-SEM?
Thanks for watching. Here is the reference Latif, K. F. (2018). The development and validation of stakeholder-based scale for measuring university social responsibility (USR). Social indicators research, 140(2), 511-547.
@@researchwithfawad Thanks so much, Dr. Fawad. I really appreciate your help. But, please I have another request, a question actually: Please after EFA, must I perform a CFA before using the factors in my SPSS analysis. In this case, no theories are involved. Again. thanks for your help.
Thanks. I am glad you liked it. No it is not wrong, when you say significant, do you mean eigenvalue over 1. Are there any items loading onto factors that they should not? Check and remove the items, also if you are using an already validated scale, no need for EFA.
@@researchwithfawad I am using validated scales for each construct, but do I need to check again since its all put together? and yes I meant eigenvalue
Goodevening sir! I am a senior high school student from Benigno S. Aquino National High School, Tarlac, Philippines. May I request to have a permission to use your tool format/ your survey instrumentation format for our research study! We won't forget to cite your name sir... It would be a great help. Thank you!
Thanks for letting me know. Please check this link researchwithfawad.com/index.php/lp-courses/data-analysis-using-spss/how-to-perform-exploratory-factor-analysis-using-spss/
Asalamualikum sir, I'm really grateful for your videos. You really helped me with moderation analysis using smart pls. Sir I wanted to ask regarding adapted questionnaire and the use of factor analysis. Sir, can we set the number of factors based on the adapted questionnaire? When we run factor analysis through SPSS, it gives two options: 1) Based on eigen values 2) fixed number of factors. The papers from where I have adapted my questionnaire has total of 7 items/ dimensions/ themes in total. So can I use the option number 2 - fixed number of factors = 7? I have adapted my questionnaire from 3 different papers. Should I proceed with option 1- based on eigen values or option 2 - fixed number of factors. Thank you so much sir for your help. :) I have learned a lot from you.
Sir, it shows this after analysis. Please help me out. There are fewer than two cases, at least one of the variables has zero variance, there is only one variable in the analysis, or correlation coefficients could not be computed for all pairs of variables. No further statistics will be computed.
The issue is with respect to missing values in your data. Refer to this link www.ibm.com/support/pages/factor-analysis-returns-error-there-are-fewer-2-cases-variable-0-variance-or-only-1-variable
Many thanks Fawad. -1- What is your hypothesize factor in this your video, as I see some use 0.3, and 0.4(Spence et al 2001, The structure of anxiety symptoms among preschoolers, Behav Res Ther. 2001; 39(11):1293-316) -2- In this Spence et al, on Page 1298, what does this statement mean '' Of the 28 items, 26 had a loading in excess of 0.40 on their hypothesize d factor''. -3- What is the ideal hypothesis factor 0.3, or 0.4, or 0.5? -4- In this same paper, on Table 2, what is the meaning of the number in bracket of the factor loading means & how do I locate such in this your video? -4- In reporting EFA, are we allowed to write out the Initial Eigenvalue % of Variance together with each factor Eigenvalue, Example Factor 1: (Eigenvalue 5.94; 24.718%)
The statement "Of the 28 items, 26 had a loading in excess of 0.40 on their hypothesize d factor" means that the factor loading for the items was over the minimum 0.40 on the expected factor. Preferred minimum loading is 0.50 Just report factor and their eigenvalue after removing the items that do not load well.
Sir if we are adapting a scale for a study in a non western culture like India that was originally developed in a western culture, do we need to go for CFA only ?
sir one question plz if i adopt a scale from pretested one but I change one word of it ie. instead of apparel I wrote clothes in my questionnaire. so do I need to apply EFA
sir. my research is based on confirmation of past theories regarding Working capital management practices. which factor analysis method shall i use. is it CFA ? if CFA , it it same way of Cheking EFA.
SIR, I am conducting RESEARCH ON Topic SOCIAL IMPACT ON CONSUMER Behaviour and i am using TAM Theory factors i.e, PU & PE under the Heading PERCEPTION TOWARDS SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS...should i have to conduct CFA and EFA both or only CFA And plz tell cfa is carried out from spss only or from Smart PLS too..
This really helped. Thank u for the simple descriptive explanation. Just had one query. How did you come up with the value of 60.798 as the percentage of variance? Because when I calculated the total variance of the 3 factors from the given example, I got a value of around 56. It would be great if you could clarify.
Thanks for your message. Actually, i entered the final variance value after removing the items that were cross-loading, not loading at all, or low loading.
