principal components analysis

S6E16 Correspondence Analysis

In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick shine a flashlight on correspondence analysis and find that this is an extraordinarily cool yet often neglected method similar to factor analysis but applied to nominal contingency tables. Along the way they also discuss online personality tests, marital therapy, modern antibiotics, the Newlywed Game, grand slams, the advantages […]

S6E16 Correspondence Analysis Read More »

S5E08 Confirmatory Composite Analysis: Enter the Hexagon

In today’s episode, Greg and Patrick dig into Confirmatory Composite Analysis, a very clever way to get formative factors and their causal indicators into the traditional structural equation modeling framework, along with any other latent factors and their effect indicators that might already be in the model. Along the way they also discuss full-contact Wordle,

S5E08 Confirmatory Composite Analysis: Enter the Hexagon Read More »

Scroll to Top