The Underlying, Mathematical Objective in Principal Components Analysis Is to Obtain

question 13

Multiple Choice

The underlying, mathematical objective in principal components analysis is to obtain:

• A) Correlated linear combinations of the original variables that account for as much of the total variance in the original variables as possible.
• B) Uncorrelated linear combinations of the original variables that account for some of the total variance in the original variables.
• C) Uncorrelated linear combinations of the original variables that account for as much of the total variance in the original variables as possible.
• D) Uncorrelated combinations of the original variables that account for as much of the total variance in the original variables as possible.

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