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Correspondence Analysis: A Neglected Multivariate Method
Author(s) -
Hill M. O.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2347127
Subject(s) - multivariate statistics , multivariate analysis , mathematics , statistics
Summary R. A. Fisher's canonical analysis of contingency tables is shown to be applicable to incidence data as well as to contingency tables, and is accordingly designated by another author's name “correspondence analysis”. In a theoretical section, the method is shown to be equivalent to a special case of Hotelling's canonical correlation analysis and also to a scale‐free variant of principal components analysis. A practical example is examined, and a number of practical considerations discussed.