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principal component analysis: a standalone construct

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Statistics

replacing many correlated variables with a few uncorrelated components that capture as much variance as possible.

In statistics, principal component analysis refers to replacing many correlated variables with a few uncorrelated components that capture as much variance as possible. This meaning comes from Hotelling (1933) in Journal of Educational Psychology.[1]

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References

  1. Hotelling, H. (1933). Analysis of a complex of statistical variables into principal components. Journal of Educational Psychology, 24(6), 417-441. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0071325

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