Brigitte Le Roux and Henry Rouanet (with a foreword by Patrick Suppes): Geometric Data Analysis: From Correspondence Analysis to Structured Data Analysis
 Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004. 475 pages, 155 Euros

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 529-531
Author(s):  
Johs Hjellbrekke
Author(s):  
Amal Tawfik ◽  
Stephan Davidshofer

This chapter focuses on multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), which is a factor analysis statistical method used to analyse relations between a large set of categorical variables. Developed by Jean-Paul Benzécri in the early 1970s, MCA is one of the principal methods of geometric data analysis (GDA). Three different statistical methods can be identified as GDA: correspondence analysis (CA), which enables the cross-tabulation of two categorical variables; MCA for the analysis of a matrix of individuals and categorical variables; and principal component analysis (PCA), which uses numerical variables. In GDA, data is represented as a cloud of points to allow statistical interpretations. Although MCA is a relational method, it differs from social network analysis (SNA) as it focuses on the objective relations that characterize actors or groups, rather than the effective relations.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigitte Le Roux ◽  
Solène Bienaise ◽  
Jean-Luc Durand

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