"Elliot Cramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : You don't know what you are talking about. There are many, many > : situations in which data is analysed when there are more variables > : than observations. > > but if you know anything about statistics, you don't analyze them as > variables but condense them based on your knowledge to many fewer > variables than observations
Yes, by using variable clustering, for example. I noticed that there are procedures in SAS, and in Frank Harrell's R/S libraries for this purpose. Has anyone compared PCA and variable clustering? Aleks Jakulin . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
