Retrieving the correlation matrix from a truncated PCA solution: The inverse principal component problem

Psychometrika

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 317-324

  Ten Berge, Jos M F ^a   Kiers, Henk A L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Inverse eigenvalue problems; Ledermann bound; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033246003     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02294298     Document Type: Article

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