PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS AND FACTOR ANALYSIS IN GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH: SOME PROBLEMS AND ISSUES

1 April 1977

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in South African Geographical Journal

Vol. 59 (1) , 30-44
https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.1977.9713493

Abstract

Four problems relating to the use of principal components analysis, based on correlation coefficients, are discussed with reference to geographical structures. The general conclusion is that the method is not suited to many geographical data sets.

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