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S-PLUS code for ordinal correspondence analysis

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Correspondence analysis is a popular graphical tool used to analyse contingency tables. In the past, it has commonly been performed by applying a singular value decomposition to a transformation of the data in the contingency table. A recent advance in its theory is to perform a bivariate moment decomposition instead. This approach is especially useful for the detection of linear and non-linear associations between ordinal variables; a feature not readily available using singular value decomposition.

This paper outlines S-PLUS code that will perform correspondence analysis using bivariate moment decomposition. It also includes a simple plotting function that will enable the graphical interpretation of the different levels of association.

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Beh, E.J. S-PLUS code for ordinal correspondence analysis. Computational Statistics 19, 593–612 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02753914

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