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2016 Apr 30
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Unexpected scores from weighted PCA with svyprcomp()
...indicator using data from a
national household survey. The economic indicator is to be the first
principal component from a principal components analysis, which (given
the source of the data) I believe should take in consideration the
sampling weights of the observations. After running the PCA with
svyprcomp(), from the survey package, I wanted to list the loading (with
regard to the first principal component) and the scale of the variables,
so that I can tell people how to "reconstitute" the economic indicator
from the variables without any knowledge of PCA. This reconstituted
indicator woul...