Criteria for Evaluating Dimension-Reducing Components for Multivariate Data

American Statistician

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 72-76

  Gervini, Daniel ^a   Rousson, Valentin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Linear prediction; Principal components; Rotated components; Simple components

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342331599     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/0003130042863     Document Type: Article

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