Re: Multi Correspondence Analysis

Posted by Peter Spangler on Aug 13, 2013; 9:07pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Multi-Correspondence-Analysis-tp5721553p5721566.html

Optimal scaling for analyzing nonlinear variables has been a recent curiosity of mine as well. Thanks for mentioning, Patrick! Can you recommend a good source for a beginner?

Peter Spangler

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Yang, Hongwei <[hidden email]> wrote:

It reminds of the third option under Dimension Reduction: OPTIMAL SCALING.

 

Many times, we analyze likert-scale data using the FACTOR platform. But probably, the OPTIMAL SCALING procedure is a better option which does nonlinear principal component analysis, among other things.

 

So, it is a very nice procedure. But it does not seem to be emphasized enough.

 

Sorry about deviating from the main topic! It just came to my mind. J

 

Patrick Yang, University of Kentucky

 

 

From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jon K Peck
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 12:41 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Multi Correspondence Analysis

 

Multiple correspondence analysis is available in the Categories option (Analyze > Dimension Reduction > Correspondence Analysis).

You can read the help for this online in the IBM Info Center at
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/spssstat/v21r0m0/index.jsp
under the Categories option.

Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
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phone: <a href="tel:[phone]" value="[phone]" target="_blank">720-342-5621




From:        Vik Rubenfeld <[hidden email]>
To:        [hidden email],
Date:        08/13/2013 10:27 AM
Subject:        Re: [SPSSX-L] Multi Correspondence Analysis
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Last time I looked into it, I did not find a way to do correspondence analysis with SPSS. However that was a few years ago. I would love to find a way to do CA in SPSS and I look forward to following this thread to find out if there is one at this time.

However, you can do CA using R Project, using an R Project package such as "CA". http://www.r-project.org/

Best,


-Vik

On Aug 13, 2013, at 4:31 AM, mils <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I would like to run a Multi Correspondence Analysis (MCA). I used to run MCA
with xlstat, so I am a bit confused on how to use it in SPSS. I've attached
a file with the raw data and variables description.

Do I have to transform the data?

Any suggestions will be really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,

Mils

Multi_Correspondence_Analysis.xlsx
<http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/file/n5721553/Multi_Correspondence_Analysis.xlsx>




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