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Principal Components and Factor Analysis

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In Chapter 10 on correlation and regression we used an example of the numbers of runs scored in the 1975 and 1976 seasons by American League baseball clubs. The data were shown in Table 10–1 and the correlation was 0.63. Figure 17-1 shows the data plotted as a scatter diagram in standardized units.

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Peters, W.S. (1987). Principal Components and Factor Analysis. In: Counting for Something. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4638-1_17

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