Biometrika Advance Access published online on September 29, 2008
Biometrika, doi:10.1093/biomet/asn040
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On an internal method for deriving a summary measure
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.
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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