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Why PLS sometimes has more than one component? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Johan Trygg   
I want to discuss some algebraic aspects of the popular OLS and PLS regression methods in chemometrics taken from my thesis (2001). The main point I want to make here is that single-y PLS models should only have one (predictive) component.
If it has more than one, it means that there is strong systematic variation in X irrelevant for the prediction of Y. Due to that, the interpretation, not the prediction, of the PLS model will suffer in direct relation to the number of additional PLS components. Let me explain what I mean...
 
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