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Human Reflexes Correlation Data
Description
This correlation matrix was published in Jolliffe (2002, p.58). The data consist of measurements of strength of reflexes at ten sites of the body, taken for 143 individuals. The variables come in five pairs, corresponding to right and left measurements on triceps, biceps, wrists, knees and ankles, respectively.
Usage
data(reflexesC)
Format
It is a 10 x 10
correlation matrix, i.e. symmetric, and
diagonal 1
.
The five pairs of variables are (in this order)
"triceps.R", "triceps.L", "biceps.R", "biceps.L",
"wrist.R", "wrist.L", "knee.R", "knee.L",
"ankle.R", "ankle.L"
.
References
Jolliffe, I.T. (2002) Principal Component Analysis (2nd ed.). Springer, New York.
Examples
data(reflexesC)
symnum(reflexesC)
sca(reflexesC) # sca gets 97.95% of PCA
[Package sca version 0.9-2 Index]