Methods ...: Practical Guide To Principal Component
: Factor Analysis of Mixed Data (FAMD) and Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA) for datasets with both continuous and categorical variables.
: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for quantitative variables.
: The book heavily utilizes the author's own factoextra R package , which creates elegant, ggplot2 -based graphs to help interpret results. Practical Guide To Principal Component Methods ...
: Hierarchical Clustering on Principal Components (HCPC), which combines dimensionality reduction with clustering techniques. Who Should Read It
: Specifically those looking to move beyond "old-school" base R graphics to more modern, publication-ready visualizations. Practical Guide To Principal Component Methods in R : Factor Analysis of Mixed Data (FAMD) and
: Simple Correspondence Analysis (CA) for two variables and Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) for more than two.
: Those who need to analyze large multivariate datasets for research or business but prefer practical implementation over theoretical derivation. : Those who need to analyze large multivariate
The book categorizes methods based on the types of data you are analyzing: