One of the simplest ways for readers of the scientific literature to understand statistical methodology is to start with the data used in a study. The nature of the data typically determines which ...

Dealing with categorical data is an essential part of data preprocessing in many machine learning tasks. Fortunately, encoding categorical data efficiently helps enhance the performance of machine ...

This paper provides a detailed description of some recent methods for analyzing categorical data from complex surveys involving clustering, stratification, and multistage sampling. The methods are ...