Olympic Track Records: Some Practical Considerations in the Principal Component Analysis

American Statistician

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 140-144

  Becker, Dayanand N ^a   Khattree, Ravindra ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Athletic excellence; Correlation matrix; Principal component analysis; Ranking; Track records; Variance covariance matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030327680     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1996.10474361     Document Type: Article

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