SPSS® 12.0 Command Syntax Reference

MAXITER Subcommand
CATPCA 199
MAXITER specifies the maximum number of iterations the procedure can go through in its
computations. If not all variables are specified as NUME and/or MNOM, the output starts from
iteration 0, which is the last iteration of the initial phase, in which all variables except MNOM
variables are treated as NUME.
• If MAXITER is not specified, the maximum number of iterations is 100.
• The specification on MAXITER is a positive integer indicating the maximum number of
iterations. There is no uniquely predetermined (that is, hard-coded) maximum for the
value that can be used.
CRITITER Subcommand
CRITITER specifies a convergence criterion value. CATPCA stops iterating if the difference in
fit between the last two iterations is less than the CRITITER value.
• If CRITITER is not specified, the convergence value is 0.00001.
• The specification on CRITITER is any value less than or equal to 0.1.
PRINT Subcommand
The model summary and the HISTORY statistics for the last iteration are always displayed.
That is, they cannot be controlled by the PRINT subcommand. The PRINT subcommand
controls the display of additional optional output. The output of the procedure is based on the
transformed variables. However, the correlations of the original variables can be requested
as well by the keyword OCORR.
The default keywords are DESCRIP, LOADINGS, and CORR. However, when some keywords
are specified, the default is nullified and only what was specified comes into effect. If
a keyword is duplicated or if a contradicting keyword is encountered, then the last one silently
becomes effective (in case of contradicting use of NONE, this means that only the keywords
following NONE are effective). For example,
/PRINT /PRINT = DESCRIP LOADING CORR
/PRINT = VAF VAF /PRINT = VAF
/PRINT = VAF NONE CORR /PRINT = CORR
If a keyword that can be followed by a variable list is duplicated, it will cause a syntax error,
and the procedure will terminate.
The following keywords can be specified:
DESCRIP(varlist) Descriptive statistics (frequencies, missing values, optimal scaling
level, and mode). The variables in the varlist must be specified on the
VARIABLES subcommand but need not appear on the ANALYSIS subcommand.
If DESCRIP is not followed by a varlist, descriptives tables
are displayed for all the variables in the varlist on the ANALYSIS
subcommand.