Applied Correspondence Analysis - An Introduction

This volume provides readers with a simple and nontechnical introduction to correspondence analysis (CA), a technique for summarily describing the relationships among categorical variables in large tables. It begins with the history and logic of CA. The author shows readers the steps to the analysis: category profiles and masses are computed, the distances between these points calculated and the best-fitting space of n-dimensions located. There are glossaries on appropriate programs from SAS and SPSS for doing CA and the book concludes with a comparison of CA and log-linear models.

List of contents

Introduction
The Essentials of Correspondence Analysis
A Simple Example
Analysis of Large Tables
Analysis of Multiple Response Tables and Survey Data
Correspondence Analysis and Log-linear Models
Conclusions

Summary

In the QUANTITATIVE APPLICATIONS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES series, an introduction to correspondence analysis which outlines the history and logic behind the technique. It explains the analysis of large contingency tables and survey data and compares correspondence analysis with log linear models.

Product details

• Authors: Sten Erik Clausen, Sten-Erik Clausen
• Assisted by: Sten Erik Clausen (Editor)
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1998
• EAN: 9780761911159
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-1115-9
• No. of pages: 78
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 111 g
• Series: Quantitative Applications in t; Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences; Quantitative Applications in t
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)