Assigning Data to Roles

To run the Correspondence Analysis task, you must select an input data source. To filter the input data source, click Filter Icon. In the Correspondence Analysis task, you can choose the data layout: raw data or table data. The Roles options differ depending on the data layout.

Simple Correspondence Analysis of Raw Data

These options are available if you select a data layout of raw data and the simple correspondence analysis.
To run a simple correspondence analysis of raw data, you must assign variables to the Row variables and Column variables roles.
Option Name
Description
Roles
Row variables
specifies the values to use to construct the rows of the contingency table.
Column variables
specifies the values to use to construct the columns of the contingency table.
Treat missing values as a distinct level
specifies whether to include missing values in the analysis.
Additional Roles
Supplementary row variables
specifies variables to represent as points in the joint row and column space. These variables are not used in determining the locations of the other active row and column points of the contingency table. Supplementary observations on supplementary variables are ignored in simple correspondence analysis but are needed to compute the squared cosines for multiple correspondence analysis.
Note: This role is not available if you assign row variables and select The factorial combinations of levels of the row variables appear as table row from the Create the contingency table rows drop-down list.
Supplementary column variables
specifies variables to represent as points in the joint row and column space. These variables are not used in determining the locations of the other active row and column points of the contingency table. Supplementary observations on supplementary variables are ignored in simple correspondence analysis but are needed to compute the squared cosines for multiple correspondence analysis.
Note: This role is not available if you assign column variables and select The factorial combinations of levels of the column variables appear as table columns option from the Create the contingency table columns drop-down list.
Weight variable
specifies weights for each observation and indicates supplementary observations for simple correspondence analyses.
Group analysis by
creates separate analyses of observations in groups that are defined by the BY variables.

Multiple Correspondence Analysis of Raw Data

These options are available if you select a data layout of raw data and the multiple correspondence analysis.
To run a multiple correspondence analysis of raw data, you must assign a variable to the Column variables role.
Option Name
Description
Roles
Column variables
specifies the values to use to construct the columns of the contingency table. You must assign at least two variables to this role.
Treat missing values as a distinct level
specifies whether to include missing values in the analysis.
Additional Roles
Supplementary column variables
specifies variables to represent as points in the joint row and column space. These variables are not used in determining the locations of the other active row and column points of the contingency table. Supplementary observations on supplementary variables are ignored in simple correspondence analysis but are needed to compute the squared cosines for multiple correspondence analysis.
Weight variable
specifies weights for each observation and indicates supplementary observations for simple correspondence analyses.
Group analysis by
creates separate analyses of observations in groups that are defined by the BY variables.

Simple Correspondence Analysis of Table Data

These options are available if you select a data layout of table data and the simple correspondence analysis.
To run a simple correspondence analysis of table data, you must assign at least two variables to the Columns of the contingency table role.
Option Name
Description
Roles
Columns of the contingency table
reads an existing contingency table, binary indicator matrix, fuzzy-coded indicator matrix, or Burt table, rather than raw data.
Additional Roles
Supplementary columns of the contingency table
specifies variables to represent as points in the joint row and column space. These variables are not used in determining the locations of the other active row and column points of the contingency table. Supplementary observations on supplementary variables are ignored in simple correspondence analysis but are needed to compute the squared cosines for multiple correspondence analysis.
Label contingency table rows
labels the rows of the tables with the values of this variable and includes this variable in the output data set.
Weight variable
specifies weights for each observation and indicates supplementary observations for simple correspondence analyses for table data.
Group analysis by
creates separate analyses of observations in groups that are defined by the BY variables.

Multiple Correspondence Analysis of Table Data

These options are available if you select a data layout of table data and the multiple correspondence analysis.
To run the Correspondence Analysis task, you must assign variables to the Columns of the Burt table role. A Burt table is a symmetric matrix of crosstabulations among several categorical variables.
Option Name
Description
Roles
Columns of the Burt table
specifies the variables to use in the analysis.
Number of variables used to create the Burt table
specifies the number of classification variables to use to create the table.
Additional Roles
Supplementary columns of the Burt table
specifies variables to represent as points in the joint row and column space. These variables are not used in determining the locations of the other active row and column points of the contingency table. Supplementary observations on supplementary variables are ignored in simple correspondence analysis but are needed to compute the squared cosines for multiple correspondence analysis.
Group analysis by
creates separate analyses of observations in groups that are defined by the BY variables.