Re: [Gretl-users] Principal Components Analysis Misbehavior
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Henrique Andrade wrote:
I found another little strange behavior using PCA
Function. Please take a look at the following Hansl
code:
<hansl>
open australia.gdt
loop i=1..30 --quiet
pca PAU PUS E --save[1]
endloop
</hansl>
After 27 repetitions, the loop starts to save all the
new series with the same name "PC1z".
Well, yes, gretl will only go so far in trying to give unique names
to the components. For more control over the process, use the
function form, princomp().
Allin Cottrell