AFC97: A New Software Implementation for Correspondence Analysis

Abstract

The extensive utilization of the statistical data analysis method of Correspondence (Factor) Analysis in a wide range of scientific fields and the need for further improvement of the method's results and their interpretation led us in a new, independent software implementation of that method. This paper proposes an alternative view of the method's format of results in an effort to aid the data analyst come up with clear, concise and well perceived findings related to the phenomenon s/he analyzes. The method of Correspondence Analysis is re-implemented in graphical (MS-Windows) environment with emphasis on the designof the interpretation tables that are now produced in MS Excel format and the capability for selective visualizationof important information emerging from the data analyzed.