[R] Partial Least Squares

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Thomas:  Thanks for the clarification.  spencer graves

Thomas Lumley wrote:

>On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Spencer Graves wrote:
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>>      Also, have you considered "sem" (structural equation modeling)?
>> From what I've heard, partial least squares started out as a solution
>>without a clear problem statement, i.e., an algorithm claiming to solve
>>a problem but without a clear statement of a probability model for which
>>their algorithm produced the (approximate) maximum likelihood or
>>Bayesian posterior mode.  Structural equation modeling, by contrast,
>>provides the model and problem statement that partial least squares
>>seems to try to solve.  I got this impression from reading the PLS
>>article in the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences.
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>I don't think that's quite right.  If you look at how PLS is used and who
>uses it, it is in situations where maximum likelihood estimation often is
>not possible or not reliable because of the dimension of the predictor
>variables.  It is a regularised version of SEM, which can be useful even
>if the penalty term is not clearly specified.
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>	-thomas
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