Introduction MCA MultiLogit
Models for categorical variables
• Log-linear models - gold standard (Christensen, 1990; Agresti, 2013)
⇒ Pb with high dimensional data.
• Latent variables models:
• categoricals: latent class models (Goodman, 1974) -
unsupervised clustering for one latent variable.
Nonparametric Bayesian extensions (Dunson, 2009, 2012)
• continuous: latent-trait models (Lazar, 1968) - item
response theory (psychology & education, Van der Linden, 1997)
• fixed: often one latent variable, difficulties to estimate.
• random: Gaussian distribution on the latent variables
(Moustaki, 2000; Sanchez, 2013)
⇒ Binary data: Collins, Dasgupta, & Schapire (2001), Buntine
(2002), Hoff (2009), De Leeuw (2006), Li & Tao (2013)
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