The Fundamental Calculations That Underpin Principal Component Analysis (Correlation Matrices)

question 12

Multiple Choice

The fundamental calculations that underpin principal component analysis (correlation matrices) are similar to which other statistical functions?

• A) MANOVA and discriminant analysis
• B) ANOVA and chi-square
• C) ANOVA and logistic regression
• D) MANOVA and multilevel analysis

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