Department of Statistics, Middle East Technical University

 

CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS & RELATED METHODS     

 

Michael Greenacre

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

 

Slides

Week 1 (colour, for viewing)         Week 1 (black&white, for printing)          Video: data in 3-d and rotation to best-fitting plane       Video: multiple regression and contour lines

Week 2 (colour, for viewing)         Week 2 (black&white, for printing)

Week 3 (colour, for viewing)         Week 3 (black&white, for printing)

Week 4 (colour, for viewing)         Week 4 (black&white, for printing)

Week 5 (colour, for viewing)         Week 5 (black&white, for printing)

Week 6 (colour, for viewing)         Week 6 (black&white, for printing)

Week 7 (colour, for viewing)         Week 7 (black&white, for printing)

Week 8 (colour, for viewing)         Week 8 (black&white, for printing)

 

Homeworks

Homework week 1: During Bayram holiday: read and study Chapters 1-3 of Biplots in Practice downloadable from http://www.multivariatestatistics.org

Homework week 2 Fill in this data form rating the dissimilarities between countries and then do homework described here.

Homework week 3: Fill in this new data form rating the attributes of each country and then do the homework described here.  Read Chapter 4 of Biplots in Practice.

Homework week 4: The homework is described here.  Also read Chapter 5 and  Chapter 6 of Biplots in Practice.  Look seriously for data for your projects!

Homework week 5: Read Chapter 8 of Biplots in Practice, downloadable from http://www.multivariatestatistics.org.  Soon you should have your actual data, we will start scheduling extra classes now for work on your projects.

Homework week 6: Read Chapter 23 of Correspondence Analysis in Practice, which you can download here.

Homework week 7: Read Chapters 9 and 10 of Biplots in Practice, downloadable from http://www.multivariatestatistics.org.

Extra reading for week 8: Read Chapter 7 of Biplots in Practice, downloadable from http://www.multivariatestatistics.org.

 

R scripts

R script up to week 5

 

Data sets

The data sets used in class can generally be obtained from http://www.multivariatestatistics.org.

 

Support reading material (some of these links are not active yet...)

Kuhnert & Venables Introduction to R

Thomas Lumley’s fundamentals of R programming

R reference card

Using R  for data analysis and graphics by Maindonald                   .RData workspace, file ‘usingR.RData’ accompanying this article

Appendix A (Theory of Correspondence Analysis) of Correspondence Analysis in Practice

Full text of La Práctica del Anàlisis de Correspondencias by Michael Greenacre

Journal of Statistical Software article on ca package by Nenadic & Greenacre (2007)

 

 

Additional reading (some of these links are not active yet...)

Almost final version of my paper Contribution Biplots (to be published in Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics).

Popular article on correspondence analysis

Publishing quantitative results

Dynamic perceptual mapping                  Dynamic graphics videos

Encyclopedia of Political Science

 

 

CARME network

www.carme-n.org

 

CARME network videos

www.youtube.com/CARMEnetwork

 

Statistical songs

www.youtube.com/StatisticalSongs

 

Basic information

Class time: Wednesday mornings 9:40-12:30

Classroom: Department of Statistics building, ground floor, room Z22

Homework and class attendance & participation counts 20% towards final grade.

Final project and project presentation counts 80% towards final grade.

My office hours for seeing students: Wednesday afternoons, 14:00-16:00.

You can also arrange a meeting at other times by speaking me at the class or contacting me by email.

Please use the following email address for communication about this course:

       mmr.upf [at] gmail.com