A User's Guide to Principal Components - Softcover

Jackson, J. Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471471348 ISBN 13: 9780471471349

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 2003

Synopsis

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From the Reviews of A User’s Guide to Principal Components

"The book is aptly and correctly named–A User’s Guide. It is the kind of book that a user at any level, novice or skilled practitioner, would want to have at hand for autotutorial, for refresher, or as a general-purpose guide through the maze of modern PCA."
–Technometrics

"I recommend A User’s Guide to Principal Components to anyone who is running multivariate analyses, or who contemplates performing such analyses. Those who write their own software will find the book helpful in designing better programs. Those who use off-the-shelf software will find it invaluable in interpreting the results."
–Mathematical Geology

About this title

From the Publisher

Principal component analysis is a multivariate technique in which a number of related variables are transformed to a (usually smaller) set of uncorrelated variables. This text is designed for practitioners of principal component analysis. Among the topics explored are extension to p variables, scaling input data, inferential procedures, operations with group data and vector interpretation. Dealing with the ``how-to-do-it'' as well as the ``why-it-works,'' it avoids getting bogged down in theoretical matters and computational techniques focusing instead on practical aspects of data reduction and interpretation.

About the Author

J. Edward Jackson received his Ph. D. from Virginia Tech in 1947. His first position was as a statistician for Eastman Kodak for whom he worked 37 years. He was self-employed from 1985-91. He and his wife, Suzanne, continue to live in New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0471471348
• ISBN 13: 9780471471349
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 592