Publications
S. Viguier-Pla (1994)
Factor-based comparison of several populations using the
COMPAR software.
Computational Statistics
ISSN: 0943-4062/94/2/135/163
- Classification
- 62P
- Keywords
- covariance matrix, principal components,
asymptotic tests of comparison, statistical software, eigenelements.
Abstract : In order to gather recent inferential tools for
comparing several populations using Principal Component Analysis results
(Flury, 1988, Schott, 1988, Chen and Robinson, 1989), we propose an
interactive software, COMPAR, written on a Personal Computer with the
GAUSS programming language. The involved tests of comparison are
based on covariance matrices, under normality assumptions.
Classical treatments are added to these tools, which constitute
the COMPAR software. A presentation is given, and examples
illustrate the steps of the investigation for the comparison
of several groups.