psych (version 1.7.5)

Harman.5: 5 socio-economic variables from Harman (1967)

Description

Harman (1967) uses 5 socio-economic variables for demonstrations of principal components and factor analysis. This example is used in the SAS manual for Proc Factor as well.

Usage

data(Harman.5)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 12 observations on the following 5 variables.

population

a numeric vector

schooling

a numeric vector

employment

a numeric vector

professional

a numeric vector

housevalue

a numeric vector

Details

Harman reports that the data "were taken (not entirely arbitrarily) from a study of the Los Angeles Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. The twelve individuals are used in the examples are census tracts." (p 13).

References

SAS users manual, chapter 26: pages 1123-1192

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
data(Harman.5)
if(require('GPArotation')){
pc2 <- principal(Harman.5,2,scores=TRUE)
pc2$residual
biplot(pc2,main="Biplot of the Harman 5 socio-demographic variables") }
# }

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