Research Article
The Use of Multiple Correspondence Analysis to Explore Associations between Categories of Qualitative Variables in Healthy Ageing
Table 2
MCA dimensions discrimination measures.
| ā | MCA dimension | Mean | 1 | 2 |
| Gender | 0.419 | 0.350 | 0.384 | Age | 0.150 | 0.332 | 0.241 | School years | 0.409 | 0.063 | 0.236 | Stroke | 0.005 | 0.073 | 0.039 | Cardiac | 0.006 | 0.139 | 0.073 | Diabetes | 0.022 | 0.083 | 0.053 | Dyslipidemia | 0.029 | 0.011 | 0.020 | Hypertension | 0.110 | 0.061 | 0.086 | Smoking habits | 0.333 | 0.272 | 0.302 | Alcohol consumption | 0.169 | 0.136 | 0.152 | Physical activity | 0.052 | 0.048 | 0.050 | BMI | 0.216 | 0.017 | 0.117 | Metabolic risk | 0.462 | 0.053 | 0.258 | Cognitive dimension GENEXEC | 0.352 | 0.125 | 0.239 | Cognitive dimension MEM | 0.122 | 0.221 | 0.171 |
| Active total | 2.857 | 1.984 | 2.421 | % of variance | 19.045 | 13.229 | 16.137 |
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