A Multivariate Perspective on the Analysis of Categorical Data
- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Applied Psychological Measurement
- Vol. 10 (2) , 141-145
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014662168601000203
Abstract
Psychological research often involves analysis of an I x J contingency table consisting of the responses of J groups of individuals on a criterion variable with I nominal categories. The conventional statistical approach for comparing responses across groups is the Pearson chi-square test. Alternatively, this analysis can be viewed as a multivariate analysis of variance with binary dependent variables, a canonical correlation analysis with two sets of binary variables, or a form of correspondence analysis. Although these analysis approaches stem from different traditions, they produce equivalent results when applied to an I x J tableKeywords
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