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In psychiatric epidemiology it is necessary to analyze total or partial associations between categories of properties. For the analysis of associations between two properties statistical procedures are available based on correlation analysis. For the analysis of multidimensional contingency tables these procedures are inadequate. In order to solve this problem Krauth and Lienert (1973) developed the analysis of configuration frequency (CFA). The theoretical implications of this method are discussed, and illustrated by means of a five-dimensional contingency-table. Problems of interpreting the non-hierarchical CFA and the hierarchical CFA are discussed. A program written in FORTRAN IV may be obtained from the authors.
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This investigation was supported entirely by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and was conducted as part of the Sonderforschungsbereich 116 of the University of Heidelberg.
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Rey, E.R., Klug, J. & Welz, R. The application of Lienert's “configuration frequency analysis” in psychiatric epidemiology. Soc Psychiatry 13, 53–60 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00578062
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