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Factor analysis of categorical or mixed categorical/continuous data in [R]

2 messages · root, Brian Ripley

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Are there any suitable routines that perform factor analysis of categorical
or mixed categorical/continuous data in R?

Stuart

Dr Stuart Leask MA MB BChir (Cantab) MRCPsych
Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Nottingham Dept Psychiatry
Duncan Macmillan House, Porchester Road, Nottingham. NG3 6AA. UK
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www.nottingham.ac.uk/psychiatry/staff/sjl.html


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On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Dr Stuart Leask wrote:

            
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?