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How about orthogonality? How about differences between PLS algorithms?

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When good pre­dic­tive abil­ity is the one and only goal, it is per­haps less impor­tant to think about orthog­o­nal­ity. The rea­son is sim­ple: we decide to only think about the pre­dicted val­ues and we don’t care about look­ing at any­thing else in the mod­els we have cre­ated. When talk­ing about dif­fer­ences between dif­fer­ent lin­ear algorithms …

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Replace “independent variables” with “modeling variables”

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The mean­ing of the words depen­dent and inde­pen­dent are not dif­fi­cult to under­stand. Inde­pen­dent sim­ply means not depen­dent. It could refer to a per­son, a mol­e­cule, a cell, a coun­try, or to any kind of object. The point is that it is not influ­enced or con­trolled by any­thing, except by itself. It is IN-depen­­dent. Of …

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