Omitting correlated variables

Data collected on the physical, biological or man-made world are often highly correlated, posing the question of whether fewer variables would contain almost as much information. A crude solution is simply to look at the Pearson correlation matrix and omit one of a pair of highly correlated variable...

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Published in:ORiON
Main Authors: L. Jenkins, M Anderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA) 2014-01-01
Online Access:http://orion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/183