Notes on the prehistory of principal components analysis

Richard W. Farebrother

Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2022, vol. 188, issue C

Abstract: Principal Components Analysis was developed by Harold Hotelling (1895–1973) in 1933 and Canonical Correlations Analysis in 1936. In this article we trace some of the stages leading up to the development of these procedures, chiefly in the hands of Francis Galton (1822–1911) and Karl Pearson (1857–1936) paying particular attention to the two-variable case developed independently by Julius Ludwig Weisbach (1806–1871) in 1840 and Robert Jackson Adcock (1826–1895) in 1877-78.

Keywords: Robert Jackson Adcock; Correlation; Francis Galton; Karl Pearson; Orthogonal least squares; Principal components; Regression; Standard least squares; Julius Ludwig Weisbach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2021.104814

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