Hi Amanda,

You can try Gary King's Amelia for missing data.

http://gking.harvard.edu/amelia/

Hope this works,

Jeronimo

Amanda Bittner wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to run an exploratory factor analysis with a large dataset 
> constructed by concatenating elections studies datasets from a number of 
> countries. Unfortunately, I have a problem with missing data (missing 
> completely at random), and I can't seem to find any STATA ado files that 
> will help me overcome this issue.
> 
> Does anybody know how I can get stata to run a Full Information Maximum 
> Likelihood (FIML) exploratory factor analysis?
> 
> As of now, it seems as though only Mplus is capable of doing this with 
> exploratory factor analysis, even though both LISREL and AMOS for SPSS 
> are able to do FIML confirmatory factor analysis.
> 
> I am tearing my hair out - any advice would be MUCH appreciated!
> 
> Amanda
> 
> 
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> Amanda Bittner
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> Department of Political Science
> University of British Columbia
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