Dr Stuart Leask
2002-Feb-21 09:17 UTC
Factor analysis of categorical or mixed categorical/continuous data in [R]
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 tel. 00 44 115 969 1300 xtn 40784 fax 0115 955 5352 www.nottingham.ac.uk/psychiatry/staff/sjl.html -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Prof Brian Ripley
2002-Feb-21 09:33 UTC
[R] Re: Factor analysis of categorical or mixed categorical/continuous data in [R]
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? -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._