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PCOM: A Microcomputer Program that Performs a Principal Components Analysis

Stephen Powers

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This paper describes a microcomputer program that extracts principal components from a correlation matrix and rotates them to a varimax solution. Eigenvalues, variances associated with each component, unrotated component loadings, and varimax rotated loadings are output by the program.

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This paper describes a microcomputer program that extracts principal components from a correlation matrix and rotates them to a varimax solution. Eigenvalues, variances associated with each component, unrotated component loadings, and varimax rotated loadings are output by the program.

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This paper describes a microcomputer program that extracts principal components from a correlation matrix and rotates them to a varimax solution. Eigenvalues, variances associated with each component, unrotated component loadings, and varimax rotated loadings are output by the program.

Key concepts: Varimax rotation, Principal component analysis, Microcomputer, Computer program, Statistics, Component (thermodynamics), Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, Mathematics

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