Will be interesting have the possibility to decide after the calculation of the component is done how many component use for the PLS.It's exist a tool for R that is call Chemometrics agile tool (gruop of Italian chemometrics) that give the possibi...

Introduction of kernel functions in PLS can significantly improve the explanatory power of regression. Hope it comes true in future.

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I think will be very interesting if the NIPALS computation will be possible in all missing data selection

This is used a lot in Ecology, behavior and cosnervation.

Right now XLstat offers only an annual subscription. I have the need to use XLstat and prefer not to use other software, but with a single, small project cannot justify $1395 for a couple days worth of analyses. I'd gladly pay for a month's subscr...

BIC is a good complement to AIC to select parcimonious models

In the procedure Similarity /Dissimilarity matrices but also in Cluster Analysis it is possible to use a variety of similarity and dissimilarity measures. Choosing the right one is most important. To understand all these measures it would be han...

Parallel analysis to indicate how many factors should be retained in the PCA. Useful to anyone running a PCA and/or using a PCA prior to PrefMapping.