\name{MFAg-package}

\alias{MFAg-package}

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\title{Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA)}

\description{Performs multiple factor analysis method for quantitative, categorical, frequency and mixed data.}

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\author{
Paulo Cesar Ossani,

Marcelo Angelo Cirillo

Maintainer: Paulo Cesar Ossani <ossanipc@hotmail.com>
}

\references{
Abdessemed, L.; Escofier, B. Analyse factorielle multiple de tableaux de frequencies: comparaison avec l'analyse canonique des correspondences. \emph{Journal de la Societe de Statistique de Paris}, Paris, v. 137, n. 2, p. 3-18, 1996..

Abdi, H. Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Generalized Singular Value Decomposition (GSVD). In: SALKIND, N. J. (Ed.). \emph{Encyclopedia of measurement and statistics.} Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2007. p. 907-912.

Abdi, H.; Valentin, D. Multiple factor analysis (MFA). In: SALKIND, N. J. (Ed.). \emph{Encyclopedia of measurement and statistics.} Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2007. p. 657-663.

Abdi, H.; Williams, L. Principal component analysis. \emph{WIREs Computational Statatistics}, New York, v. 2, n. 4, p. 433-459, July/Aug. 2010.

Abdi, H.; Williams, L.; Valentin, D. Multiple factor analysis: principal component analysis for multitable and multiblock data sets. \emph{WIREs Computational Statatistics}, New York, v. 5, n. 2, p. 149-179, Feb. 2013.

Becue-Bertaut, M.; Pages, J. A principal axes method for comparing contingency tables: MFACT. \emph{Computational Statistics & data Analysis}, New York, v. 45, n. 3, p. 481-503, Feb. 2004

Becue-Bertaut, M.; Pages, J. Multiple factor analysis and clustering of a mixture of quantitative, categorical and frequency data. \emph{Computational Statistics & data Analysis}, New York, v. 52, n. 6, p. 3255-3268, Feb. 2008.

Bezecri, J. Analyse de l'inertie intraclasse par l'analyse d'un tableau de contingence: intra-classinertia analysis through the analysis of a contingency table. \emph{Les Cahiers de l'Analyse des Donnees}, Paris, v. 8, n. 3, p. 351-358, 1983.

Escofier, B. Analyse factorielle en reference a un modele: application a l'analyse d'un tableau d'echanges. \emph{Revue de Statistique Appliquee}, Paris, v. 32, n. 4, p. 25-36, 1984.

Escofier, B.; Drouet, D. Analyse des differences entre plusieurs tableaux de frequence. \emph{Les Cahiers de l'Analyse des Donnees}, Paris, v. 8, n. 4, p. 491-499, 1983.

Escofier, B.; Pages, J. \emph{Analyse factorielles simples et multiples.} Paris: Dunod, 1990. 267 p.

Escofier, B.; Pages, J. \emph{Analyses factorielles simples et multiples:} objectifs, methodes et interpretation. 4th ed. Paris: Dunod, 2008. 318 p.

Escofier, B.; Pages, J. \emph{Comparaison de groupes de variables definies sur le meme ensemble d'individus:} un exemple d'applications. Le Chesnay: Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, 1982. 121 p.

Escofier, B.; Pages, J. Multiple factor analysis (AFUMULT package). \emph{Computational Statistics & data Analysis}, New York, v. 18, n. 1, p. 121-140, Aug. 1994

Greenacre, M.; Blasius, J. \emph{Multiple correspondence analysis and related methods.} New York: Taylor and Francis, 2006. 607 p.

Ossani, P. C.; Cirillo, M. A.; Borem, F. M.; Ribeiro, D. E.; Cortez, R. M. Quality of specialty coffees: a sensory evaluation by consumers using the MFACT technique. \emph{Revista Ciencia Agronomica (UFC. Online)}, v. 48, p. 92-100, 2017.

Pages, J. Analyse factorielle multiple appliquee aux variables qualitatives et aux donnees mixtes. \emph{Revue de Statistique Appliquee}, Paris, v. 50, n. 4, p. 5-37, 2002.

Pages, J.. Multiple factor analysis: main features and application to sensory data. \emph{Revista Colombiana de Estadistica}, Bogota, v. 27, n. 1, p. 1-26, 2004.

Rencher, A. C. \emph{Methods of multivariate analysis.} 2th. ed. New York: J.Wiley, 2002. 708 p.
}

\keyword{Multivariate analysis}
