AMS subject classification: 62-07, 62-09, 62H20, 62H99, 62P05Disability and dependency (lack of autonomy in performing common everyday actions)
affect health status and quality of life, therefore they are significant public health issues.
The main purpose of this study is to establish the existing relationship among different
variables (continuous, categorical and binary) referred to children between 3 and 6 years old
and their functional dependence in basic activities of daily living. We combine different
types of information via weighted related metric scaling to obtain homogeneous profiles for
dependent Spanish children. The redundant information between groups of variables is
modeled with an interaction parameter that can be optimized according to several criteria.
In this paper, the goal is to obtain maximum explained variability in an Euclidean
configuration. Data comes from the Survey about Disabilities, Personal Autonomy and
Dependence Situations, EDAD 2008, (Spanish National Institute of Statistics, 2008)This work has been partially supported by Spanish grant MTM2010-17323 (Spanish
Ministry of Science and Innovation
