Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0202210927140.19387-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2002-02-21T09:33:33Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Factor analysis of categorical or mixed categorical/continuous data in [R]
In-Reply-To: <005101c1bab8$97c1e4e0$51d6f380@PMCMG01.nottingham.ac.uk>
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Dr Stuart Leask wrote:
> Are there any suitable routines that perform factor analysis of categorical
> or mixed categorical/continuous data in R?
In my reference books `factor analysis' is defined to be for continuous
data. There are many latent variable techniques for categorical data with
many variants on each. Which precisely did you have in mind?
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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