ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO CORRESPONDENCE-ANALYSIS OF SOCIOMATRICES

If the usual correspondence analysis is viewed as a decomposition of d epartures from the model of independence, there are problems in applic ations to sociomatrices with regard to the treatment of the diagonal a nd cell estimates under independence. Other related techniques from th e literature are more appropriate for analysis of sociomatrices. The d ifferent approaches are used to analyze a familiar sociomatrix, and th e results of the techniques are compared.