[R] Help: PLSR

[Bjørn-Helge Mevik]

Shengzhe Wu writes:

> I have a data set with 15 variables (first one is the response) and
> 1200 observations. Now I use pls package to do the plsr as below.

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> Because the trainSet has been scaled before training, I think Xtotvar
> should be equal to 14, but unexpectedly Xtotvar = 16562,

Because the Xtotvar is the "total X variation", measured by sum(X^2)
(where X has been centered).  With 14 variables, scaled to sd == 1,
and 1200 observations, you should get Xtotvar == 14*(1200-1) ==
16786.  (Maybe you have 1184 observations: 14*1183 == 16562.)

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Bjørn-Helge Mevik