Hi all, I am sure this is a well-studied stats problem, could anybody give me some pointers?
It's similar to Canonical Correlation study. We have a bunch of random variables, and want to figure out the set of linear combinations of these variables, such that their mutual correlations are all bounded by the upbound alpha. That's to say, giving n random variables x_1, ..., x_n, we want to obtain m new random variables, y_1, y_2, ..., y_m, each one is a linear combination of the {x_1, ..., x_n}, and we want the max mutual correlation among {y_1, y_2, ..., y_m} to be confined by an upbound alpha. Under that constraint, we would like to have m as large as possible. Any "optimal" way of doing that? Or good engineering approach? Thanks a lot! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Pointers-to-solutions-to-this-PCA-or-Cononical-Correlation-type-problem-tp2289177p2289177.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.