interpret function

Scores of fmdsd, dstatis, fpcad, or fpcat vs. moments, or scores of mdsdd vs. marginal distributions or association measures

This generic function provides a tool for the interpretation of the results of fmdsd, dstatis, fpcad, fpcat or mdsdd function.

interpret(x, nscore = 1:3, ...)

Arguments

• x: object of class fmdsd, dstatis, fpcad, fpcat or mdsdd.

  • fmdsd: see interpret.fmdsd
  • dstatis: see interpret.dstatis
  • fpcad: see interpret.fpcad
  • fpcat: see interpret.fpcat
  • mdsdd: see interpret.mdsdd

• nscore: numeric vector. Selects the columns of the data frame x$scores to be interpreted.

  Warning: Its components cannot be greater than the nb.factors argument in the call of the fpcad or fpcat function.

• ...: Arguments to be passed to the methods, such as moment (for interpret.fmdsd, interpret.dstatis, interpret.fpcad and interpret.fpcat), or mma (for interpret.mdsdd).

Returns

Returns a list including: - pearson: matrix of Pearson correlations between selected scores and moments, probabilities or associations.

• spearman: matrix of Spearman correlations between selected scores and moments, probabilities or associations.

References

Boumaza, R., Yousfi, S., Demotes-Mainard, S. (2015). Interpreting the principal component analysis of multivariate density functions. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 44 (16), 3321-3339.

Author(s)

Rachid Boumaza, Pierre Santagostini, Smail Yousfi, Sabine Demotes-Mainard

See Also

interpret.fmdsd ; interpret.dstatis ; interpret.fpcad ; interpret.fpcat ; interpret.mdsdd .