sixAuthorsPunctuated: The punctuation used by six classical French Writers

In HerveAbdi/data4PCCAR: Some data sets and R-functions for PCA and CA to accompany Abdi & Beaton (to appear, 2023) Principal Component and Correspondence Analysis with R

The punctuation used by six classical French Writers

Description

sixAuthorsPunctuated: The punctuation marks (comma, period, and "other marks") used by six French authors Rousseau, Chateaubrian, Hugo, Zola, Proust, Giraudoux. This set is used to illustrate Correspondence Analysis.

Usage

data("sixAuthorsPunctuated")

Format

A list containing 3 data frames:

• df.active: the punctuation by the six authors

• supplementary.variables: gives the details of the punctuation marks included the Other category: ' Exclam, Question, SemiCol, Colon

• supplementary.observation: The punctuation marks used in Chapter 1 of Les Réseaux de Neurones written by Hervé Abdi

Details

The punctuation by the six authors constitutes the "active set" in correspondence analysis: it is stored in the data frame: df.active.

The category Other is the sum of 4 punctation marks: Exclam, Question, SemiCol, Colon whose distribution is stored in the data frame supplementary.variables.

To illustrate the projection of supplementary onservations, the data set also contains the punctutation from Chapter 1 of Les Réseaux de Neurones written by Hervé Abdi. These data are stored in the data frame: supplementary.observation.

Author(s)

Hervé Abdi from E. Brunet

References

The active data and supplementary variables come form:

Brunet E. (1989). Faut-il pondérer les données linguistiques?. CUMFID, 1989, 16:39–50.

These data are used in several papers illustrating correspondence analysis such as:

Abdi H, Williams LJ. (2010). Correspondence analysis. In: Salkind NJ, ed. Encyclopedia of Research Design Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

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