Re: [R] Factor analysis and time as an offset variable

2016-09-06 Thread Tahereh Dehdarirad
Thank you for your reply. I am grouping citation and some social media indictors ( number of tweets, mendeley readers, etc). The number of citaions a paper recievs or the number of social media indicators that a papers receives depends on time. For example a paper published in 2009 has more time to

Re: [R] Factor analysis and time as an offset variable

2016-09-06 Thread Jeff Newmiller
That step is easy, but context is hard. You really need to provide a reproducible example. There are many models, many analysis tools, and many timescales to choose from. In fact, this could easily be mistaken for a question about statistics (not really on-topic here) since you have failed to

[R] Factor analysis and time as an offset variable

2016-09-06 Thread Tahereh Dehdarirad
Hi, Is it possible to use time as an offset (exposure variable) in factor analysis? If yes, would you please advise how? Thanks, Tahereh Tahereh Dehdarirad PhD Student of Library and Information Science University of Barcelona, Spain [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __