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Hi all,

need your help.

I run principal component analysis on the data, and get specific eigenvalues in the SPSS output (in the table "Total variance explained" -> "Initial eigenvalues"). However, when I compute eigenvalues "manually", they differ from those computed with PCA.

Particularly, I use the following syntax commands for "manual" computation in SPSS:

compute xtx=transpos(x)*x.
call eigen(xtx,eigenvectors,eigenvalues)
print eigenvalues.

where x is the matrix that contains my variables in the columns. Then I compute x transposed * x, and compute eigenvalues of this matrix.

Interestingly, eigenvalues are different from those I get with PCA.

What can be the problem? Does PCA method in SPSS compute eigenvalues in a different way?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Danny