The shape of correlation matrices

American Statistician

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 276-279

  Rousseeuw, Peter J ^a   Molenberghs, Geert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Convexity; Correlation coefficient; Elliptical tetrahedron; Graphical display; Range restrictions

Indexed keywords

EID: 21844489917     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1994.10476079     Document Type: Article

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