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Re: st: PCA with unbalanced data
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: PCA with unbalanced data
Date
Wed, 6 Apr 2011 00:42:31 +0100
This isn't clear to me. There is a hint that you are working with
panel data. How would you expect the PCs to be defined with panel
data? The short answer is that nothing stops you lumping the panels
together, but there is no guarantee that the results will be
scientifically or statistically worthwhile.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:05 PM, PINAR ERDEM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I want to use PCA (principal componets analysis) with a dataset of 49 variables. However my data is unbalanced (unequal number of observations). My questions are if it is possible to run PCA with unbalanced data and how to get longest possible components/factors? Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
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