Re: [R] "Justify" PCA? -- was: Bartlett's Test of Sphericity

2011-06-18 Thread peter dalgaard
On Jun 18, 2011, at 16:26 , Bert Gunter wrote: > Apologies for the obvious, but just to clarify: there is no reason to > "justify" a PCA -- it's just an eigen decomposition of a matrix and is > therefore "justified" by linear algebra. > > If one wants to determine whether some subset of the eige

[R] "Justify" PCA? -- was: Bartlett's Test of Sphericity

2011-06-18 Thread Bert Gunter
Apologies for the obvious, but just to clarify: there is no reason to "justify" a PCA -- it's just an eigen decomposition of a matrix and is therefore "justified" by linear algebra. If one wants to determine whether some subset of the eigenvectors = principal components suffice to "represent" the