Notes on the prehistory of principal components analysis

DOI10.1016/j.jmva.2021.104814zbMath1493.62006OpenAlexW3199003613MaRDI QIDQ2062769

Richard William Farebrother

Publication date: 3 January 2022

Published in: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2021.104814

zbMATH Keywords

correlationregressionprincipal componentsFrancis GaltonKarl Pearsonorthogonal least squaresJulius Ludwig WeisbachRobert Jackson Adcockstandard least squares

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) History of statistics (62-03)

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