Semi-parametric approach for sparse canonical correlation analysis which can handle mixed data types: continuous, binary and truncated continuous. Bridge functions are provided to connect Kendall's tau to latent correlation under the Gaussian copula model. The methods are described in Yoon, Carroll and Gaynanova (2020) <doi:10.1093/biomet/asaa007> and Yoon, Mueller and Gaynanova (2021) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2021.1882468>.
copied from cf-staging / r-mixedcca