Assessing the Stability of Supplementary Elements on Principal Axes Maps Through Bootstrap Resampling. Contribution to Interpretation in Textual Analysis
Bootstrap resampling is commonly used to assess the stability of the configurations issued from principal axes methods. In the case of textual analysis, the interpretation is usually supported by the characteristics of the individuals, used as supplementary variables. To assess the stability of these variables gives information about the global structure stability. An example issued from a wine guide illustrates the interest of computing confidence regions for supplementary, categorical or quantitative variables in correspondence analysis applied to lexical tables.