Input categorical variables

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I gave an example in this post here on how to transform dummy matrices

Categorical data in sPLS

Hi Seung, regarding your question: ’ My metadata is categorical. It can be converted to a numeric type, but it just means a group name and no continuity. I analyzed the data with “Case study with PCA and sPLS on Liver Toxicity data set” and got the following result. The result is almost no difference between the variables. Is this the result because the metadata is categorical? Is there any way to see the influence between variables with categorical metadata?’ [image.png] If you input the …