A clustering approach to interpretable principal components

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 583-599

  Enki, Doyo G ^a   Trendafilov, Nickolay T ^a   Jolliffe, Ian T ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

clustering variables; eigenvalues; interpretation; sparse principal components; weighted variances

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873809792     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2012.749846     Document Type: Article

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