introstat-l (long)

2000-02-18 Thread dennis roberts
This post is rather long, sorry. I have started a new listserv ... called INTROSTAT-L ... that will be housed here at Penn State, and uses the list server lists.psu.edu. Here is a brief explanation of what the purpose of the list is, and information about who the list has been primarily

Re: nonparametric PCA

2000-02-18 Thread Jan de Leeuw
There are various forms of "nonlinear" PCA, which transform the variables nonlinearly in such a way that there is maximal data reduction in a fixed dimensionality. For instance: transform the variables nonlinearly in such a way that the sum of the two largest eigenvalues of the correlation matrix