totalCor {EGAnet}

Total Correlation

Description

Computes the total correlation of a dataset

Usage

totalCor(data)

Arguments

data

Matrix or data frame. Should consist only of variables to be used in the analysis

Value

Returns a list containing:

Ind.Entropies

Individual entropies for each variable

Joint.Entropy

The joint entropy of the dataset

Total.Cor

The total correlation of the dataset

Author(s)

Hudson F. Golino <hfg9s at virginia.edu>

References

Formalization of total correlation
Watanabe, S. (1960). Information theoretical analysis of multivariate correlation. IBM Journal of Research and Development 4, 66-82.

Applied implementation
Felix, L. M., Mansur-Alves, M., Teles, M., Jamison, L., & Golino, H. (2021). Longitudinal impact and effects of booster sessions in a cognitive training program for healthy older adults. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 94, 104337.

Examples

# Compute total correlation
totalCor(wmt2[,7:24])