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 ...

Generally speaking, there are two types of outcomes (i.e. response) in statistical analysis: continuous and categorical responses. Linear Models (LM) are one of the most commonly used statistical ...

Maximum likelihood procedures for analysing mixed continuous and categorical data with missing values are presented. The general location model of Olkin & Tate (1961) and extensions introduced by ...