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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Correspondence Analysis
Authors : Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Léopold Simar
Published in: Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Correspondence analysis provides tools for analyzing the associations between rows and columns of contingency tables. A contingency table is a two-entry frequency table where the joint frequencies of two qualitative variables are reported. For instance a (2×2) table could be formed by observing from a sample of
n
individuals two qualitative variables: the individual’s sex and whether the individual smokes. The table reports the observed joint frequencies. In general (
n
×
p
) tables may be considered.