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Biometrika Advance Access originally published online on September 29, 2008
Biometrika 2008 95(4):1002-1005; doi:10.1093/biomet/asn040
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© 2008 Biometrika Trust

Miscellanea

On an internal method for deriving a summary measure

D. R. Cox

Nuffield College, Oxford OX1 1NF, U.K. david.cox{at}nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Received for publication 1 April 2008. Revision received 1 September 2008.

Some preliminary comments are made about the reasons for combining component observations into composite or derived variables. A method for forming derived variables sensitive to specified changes in the underlying multivariate distribution is described and illustrated by an issue in a study of animal pathology.

Key Words: Animal pathology • Canonical regression • Derived variable • Multivariate analysis • Principal component analysis



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    Jenkins H. E., Morrison W. I., Cox D. R., Donnelly C. A., Johnston W. T., Bourne F. J., Clifton-Hadley R. C., Gettinby G., McInerney J. P., Watkins G. R., Woodroffe R. The prevalence, distribution and severity of detectable pathological lesions in badgers naturally infected with Mycobacterium bovis. Epidemiol. Inf. (2008) 136:1350–61.


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