On the number of principal components: A test of dimensionality based on measurements of similarity between matrices

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2228-2237

  Dray, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Co inertia criterion; Permutation procedure; RV coefficient; Simulation study; Singular value decomposition; Stopping rules

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SET THEORY; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

LOWER DIMENSIONALITY; PERMUTATION PROCEDURE; RANDOM NOISE;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 35948933029     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.07.015     Document Type: Article

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