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 Joćo Maroco posted on Friday, October 04, 2013 - 9:16 am
Hello,
I need to get the factor score weights used by Mplus to calculate the factor scores.
I need to give the factor scores' computation formula to a colleague so that she can estimate the factor scores from each of the item scales. In SPSS AMOS I just ask for the factor score weights. But I can't find a way to do it in Mplus. Is it possible? If yes, how?
Thanks.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Friday, October 04, 2013 - 10:29 am
See the FSCOEFFICIENT option in the user's guide.

Why don't you just save the factor scores in Mplus.
 Joćo Maroco posted on Tuesday, October 08, 2013 - 6:17 am
Dear Linda,
Thanks for your prompt response.
We are giving a formulae to colleagues who use our scale for them to calculate the scores for each factor.
Best
Joćo
 Joćo Maroco posted on Tuesday, October 08, 2013 - 6:27 am
... but, I still have a problem: The FSCOEFFICIENT is "It is available only for
TYPE=GENERAL and TYPE=COMPLEX with all continuous dependent variables". Thus I got this error message

*** WARNING in OUTPUT command
FSCOEFFICIENT is not available for analysis with at least one categorical
dependent variable. Request for FSCOEFFICIENT is ignored.

All my variables (itens) are ordinal (3-point rating scale) thus I am using CATEGORICAL ARE ALL and WLMSV...

Is there a way to get these factor weights from Ordinal variables? Some type of ordered logistic coefficients?
Thanks.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Tuesday, October 08, 2013 - 9:34 am
You cannot compute factor scores for categorical outcomes by hand. An iterative process is used.
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