Variable selection in principal component analysis : using measures of multivariate association.

This thesis is concerned with the problem of selection of important variables in Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in such a way that the selected subsets of variables retain, as much as possible, the overall multivariate structure of the complete data. Throughout the thesis, the criteria used in o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sithole, Moses M.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 1992
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2112