I have friendship data which is strong skewed. So it doesn't make sense to use maximum likelihood methods for fa and cfa. But I couldn't find any function for asymptotically distributed data for doing a factor analysis. Only: apca() but there is no possibility to allow for factor correlations.
The same problem is with sem() I couldn't get any solutions for my model because of the distribution. I get the error: In sem.default(ram = ram, S = S, N = N, param.names = pars, var.names = vars, : Could not compute QR decomposition of Hessian. Optimization probably did not converge. Does someone know how to do fa and cfa with strong skewed data? Thanks a lot for helping! Jane -- ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
