Correspondence analysis
Análisis de correspondencias
- Date
- 1973 · confidence low
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Jean-Paul Benzécri
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A multivariate statistical technique that graphically represents, on a plane, the relationships between categories of a qualitative data table, developed by Jean-Paul Benzécri building on earlier ideas of Hirschfeld.
What it led to
- standard tool for exploratory analysis of categorical data in social science
- extension to multiple correspondence analysis
- influence on dimensionality-reduction techniques such as factor analysis