Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020221124714.01d96300@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 2002-02-21T17:48:12Z
From: John Fox
Subject: Factor analysis of categorical or mixed categorical/continuousdata in [R]
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0202211701470.23311-100000@gannet.stats>
Dear Brian,
At 05:16 PM 2/21/2002 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>Well, I'm confused. Stuart said he wanted a latent *categorical*
>variable, although that is not what factor analysis assumes, and John's
>approach is presumably to do factor analysis and get continuous latent
>variables out.
Quite right -- I didn't read the original question carefully enough.
Sorry,
John
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