In multivariate data analysis, regression techniques predict one set of variables from another while principal component analysis (PCA) finds a subspace of minimal dimensionality that captures the largest variability in the data. How can regression analysis and PCA be combined in a beneficial way? Why and when is it a good idea to combine them? Wha

Yoshio Takane is an emeritus professor at McGill University and an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria. He is a former president of the Psychometric Society and a recipient of a Career Award from the Behaviormetric Society of Japan and a Special Award from the Japanese Psychological Association. His recent interests include regularization techniques for multivariate data analysis, acceleration methods for iterative model fitting, the development of structural equation models for analyzing brain connectivity, and various kinds of singular value decompositions. He earned his DL from the University of Tokyo and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.