In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick shine a flashlight on correspondence analysis and find that this is an extraordinarily cool yet often neglected method similar to factor analysis but applied to nominal contingency tables. Along the way they also discuss online personality tests, marital therapy, modern antibiotics, the Newlywed Game, grand slams, the advantages of being flexible, disrespecting nominal variables, formally apologizing to linguists, Winnie the Pooh, VH1’s Pop-Up Video, the witches of Macbeth, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, and the downsides of Novocain.
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Suggested Readings
Beh, E. J. (2004). Simple correspondence analysis: a bibliographic review. International Statistical Review, 72(2), 257-284.
Clausen, S. E. (1998). Applied correspondence analysis: An introduction (Vol. 121). Sage.
de Leeuw, J., Michailidis, G., & Wang, D. Y. (1999). Correspondence analysis techniques. In Multivariate Analysis, Design of Experiments, and Survey Sampling (pp. 547-570). CRC Press.
Doey, L., & Kurta, J. (2011). Correspondence analysis applied to psychological research. Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 7(1), 5-14.
Greenacre, M. (2017). Correspondence analysis in practice. Chapman and Hall/crc.
Yelland, P. M. (2010). An introduction to correspondence analysis. The Mathematica Journal, 12(1), 86-109.