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: Those who need to analyze large multivariate datasets for research or business but prefer practical implementation over theoretical derivation.

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: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for quantitative variables.

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: Simple Correspondence Analysis (CA) for two variables and Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) for more than two.