[R] Re: Factor analysis of categorical or mixed categorical/continuous data in [R]

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Dr Stuart Leask wrote:

> Are there any suitable routines that perform factor analysis of categorical
> or mixed categorical/continuous data in R?

In my reference books `factor analysis' is defined to be for continuous
data.  There are many latent variable techniques for categorical data with
many variants on each.  Which precisely did you have in mind?

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