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Multiple correspondence analysis: one only or several techniques?

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The history of multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) is a curious one: in about 80 years, it has been invented and re-invented by different authors independently of each other. After a brief historical account of MCA, the present article intends comparing the various techniques based on the multiple correspondence analysis systems provided by two main schools: the French and the Dutch.

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  1. To overcome this drawback, the Spad software eliminates, by default, all categories with a frequency of less than 2 % (one may change this threshold value if one wishes). Alternatively, the frequencies that are too low may be aggregated into a new residual category, or defined as supplementary.

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Di Franco, G. Multiple correspondence analysis: one only or several techniques?. Qual Quant 50, 1299–1315 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-015-0206-0

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