factortest command - bartlett's test of sphericity

[Rebecca Kandiyali]

Hi I am trying to use this command in Stata14
I am getting an error message varlist not allowed. This applies even when I use preloaded data. I tried:

sysuse auto

factortest price mpg rep78 headroom turn trunk

Why the error message?

[William Lisowski]

Welcome to Statalist, Rebecca.

It works for me. I installed the user-written factortest command and then ran your example.

. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)

. factortest price mpg rep78 headroom turn trunk
    
Determinant of the correlation matrix
Det                =     0.079
 
 
Bartlett test of sphericity
    
Chi-square         =           165.062
Degrees of freedom =                15
p-value            =             0.000
H0: variables are not intercorrelated
 
 
Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy
KMO               =     0.738
 

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Stata/SE 14.2 for Mac (64-bit Intel)
Revision 19 Dec 2016
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I do not see what could have caused the error message you received. Did you execute the commands exactly as I show above, or were they part of a larger do-file, in which case the message might have originated from a different command.