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Research article2023Peer reviewedOpen access

Applications of discrete factor analysis

Larsson, Rolf; Ryden, Jesper

Abstract

A recently proposed method for factor analysis of discrete data is extended to better handle overdispersion. Three empirical examples from veterinary sciences, musicology and agriculture are investigated, involving true count data as well as ordinal data. Comparisons are made with results from related statistical techniques, e.g., principal component analysis.

Keywords

Poisson distribution; Negative binomial distribution; Model selection

Published in

Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
2023, volume: 52, number: 10, pages: 4592-4602
Publisher: TAYLOR AND FRANCIS INC

SLU Authors

UKÄ Subject classification

Probability Theory and Statistics

Publication identifier

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2021.1964528

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/113422