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In the previous chapter we have seen how principal component analysis was used to determine linear orthogonal factors underlying a set of multivariate measurements. Now we turn to the more ambitious problem to compare two groups of variables by looking for pairs of orthogonal factors, which successively assess the strongest possible links between the two groups.
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Wackernagel, H. (1998). Canonical Analysis. In: Multivariate Geostatistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03550-4_19
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