Which Statement Is Not True About Principal Components Analysis (PCA)

question 49

Multiple Choice

Which statement is not true about principal components analysis (PCA) ?

• A)The factors are estimated based only on the common variance.
• B)The total variance in the data is considered.
• C)PCA is recommended when the primary concern is to determine the minimum number of factors that will account for maximum variance in the data for use in subsequent multivariate analysis.
• D)The diagonal of the correlation matrix consist of unities.

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