Multiblock Method for Categorical Variables. Application to the Study of Antibiotic Resistance

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Bougeard, Stéphanie | Qannari, El Mostafa | Chauvin, Claire

Edité par CCSD ; Physica-Verlag HD -

International audience. We address the problem of describing several categorical variables with a prediction purpose. We focus on methods in the multiblock modelling framework, each block being formed of the indicator matrix associated with each qualitative variable.We propose a method, called categorical multiblock Redundancy Analysis, based on a well-identified global optimization criterion which leads to an eigensolution. In comparison with usual procedures, such as logistic regression, the method is well-adapted to the case of a large number of redundant explanatory variables. Practical uses of the proposed method are illustrated using an empirical example in the field of epidemiology.

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