Variable selection and interpretation of covariance principal components

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 339-354

  Ai Kandari, Noriah M ^a   Jolliffe, Lan T ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Covariance structure; Discarding variables; Measures of efficiency; Principal component analysis; Principal variables; Procrustes analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244436480     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/sac-100002371     Document Type: Article

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