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title: "Multivariate Analysis with Optimal Scaling"
author: "Jan de Leeuw, Patrick Mair, Patrick Groenen"
date: "2016-09-28T20:18:47Z"
tags: [Multivariate, Course, Social Science]
link: "https://bookdown.org/jandeleeuw6/gifi/"
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In 1980 members of the Department of Data Theory at the University of Leiden taught a post-doctoral course in Nonlinear Multivariate Analysis. The course content was sort-of-published, in Dutch, as Gifi (1980). The course was repeated in 1981, and this time the sort-of-published version (Gifi (1981)) was in English. The preface gives some details about the author. The text is the joint product of the members of the Department of Data Theory of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leiden. ‘Albert Gifi’ is their ‘nom de plume’. The portrait, however, of Albert Gifi shown here, is that ...
