PRINT Subcommand (MULTIPLE CORRESPONDENCE command)

The Model Summary statistics (Cronbach's alpha and the variance accounted for) and the HISTORY statistics (the variance accounted for, the loss, and the increase in variance accounted for) for the last iteration are always displayed. That is, they cannot be controlled by the PRINT subcommand. The PRINT subcommand controls the display of optional additional output. The output of the MULTIPLE CORRESPONDENCE procedure is always based on the transformed variables. However, the correlations of the original variables can be requested as well by the keyword OCORR.

The default keywords are DESCRIP, DISCRIM, and CORR. That is, the three keywords are in effect when the PRINT subcommand is omitted or when the PRINT subcommand is given without any keywords. Note that when some keywords are specified, the default is nullified and only the keywords specified become in effect. If a keyword that cannot be followed by a varlist is duplicated or if a contradicting keyword is encountered, then the later one silently becomes effective (in case of a contradicting use of NONE, only the keywords following NONE are effective). For example,

/PRINT <=> /PRINT = DESCRIP DISCRIM CORR


/PRINT = DISCRIM DISCRIM <=> /PRINT = DISCRIM


/PRINT = DISCRIM NONE CORR <=> /PRINT = CORR

If a keyword that can be followed by a varlist is duplicated, it will cause a syntax error and the procedure will terminate. For example, /PRINT = QUANT QUANT is a syntax error.

The following keywords can be specified:

DESCRIP(varlist). Descriptive statistics (frequencies, missing values, and mode). The variables in the varlist must be specified on the VARIABLES subcommand, but need not appear on the ANALYSIS subcommand. If DESCRIP is not followed by a varlist, Descriptives tables are displayed for all the variables in the varlist on the ANALYSIS subcommand.

DISCRIM. Discrimination measures per variable and per dimension.

QUANT(varlist). Category quantifications (centroid coordinates), mass, inertia of the categories, contribution of the categories to the inertia of the dimensions, and contribution of the dimensions to the inertia of the categories. Any variable in the ANALYSIS subcommand may be specified in parentheses after QUANT. If QUANT is not followed by a varlist, Quantification tables are displayed for all variables in the varlist on the ANALYSIS subcommand. Note: the coordinates and contributions (including the mass and inertia) are displayed in separate layers of the pivot table output, with the coordinates shown by default. To display the contributions, activate (double-click) on the table and select Contributions from the Layer dropdown list.

HISTORY. History of iterations. For each iteration, the variance accounted for, the loss, and the increase in variance accounted for are shown.

CORR. Correlations of the transformed variables, and the eigenvalues of this correlation matrix. Correlation tables are displayed for each set of quantifications, thus there are ndim (the number of dimensions in the analysis) correlation tables; the ith table contains the correlations of the quantifications of dimension i, i = 1, ..., ndim. For variables with missing values specified to be treated as PASSIVE on the MISSING subcommand, the missing values are imputed according to the specification on the PASSIVE keyword (if nothing is specified, mode imputation is used).

OCORR. Correlations of the original variables, and the eigenvalues of this correlation matrix. For variables with missing values specified to be treated as PASSIVE on the MISSING subcommand, the missing values are imputed with the variable mode.

OBJECT((varname)varlist). Object scores (component scores) and, in separate table, mass, inertia of the objects, contribution of the objects to the inertia of the dimensions, and contribution of the dimensions to the inertia of the objects. Following the keyword, a varlist can be given in parentheses to display variables (category indicators) along with the object scores. If you want to use a variable to label the objects, this variable must occur in parenthesis as the first variable in the varlist. If no labeling variable is specified, the objects are labeled with case numbers. The variables to display along with the object scores and the variable to label the objects must be specified on the VARIABLES subcommand but need not appear on the ANALYSIS subcommand. If no varlist is given, only the object scores are displayed.

NONE. No optional output is displayed. The only output shown is the Model Summary and the HISTORY statistics for the last iteration.

The keyword TO in a variable list can only be used with variables that are in the ANALYSIS subcommand, and TO applies only to the order of the variables in the ANALYSIS subcommand. For variables that are in the VARIABLES subcommand but not in the ANALYSIS subcommand, the keyword TO cannot be used. For example, if /VARIABLES = v1 TO v5 and the ANALYSIS subcommand has /ANALYSIS v2 v1 v4, then /PLOT OBJECT(v1 TO v4) will give two object plots, one labeled with v1 and one labeled with v4. (/PLOT OBJECT(v1 TO v4 v2 v3 v5) will give objects plots labeled with v1, v2, v3, v4, and v5).