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Partial Least Squares

Partial least squares regression predicts a response from many, often highly collinear predictors by projecting them onto a small set of latent components — but, unlike principal components regression, it chooses those components to maximize their covariance with the response, not just the variance of the predictors. This supervised dimension reduction makes PLS a workhorse in chemometrics, spectroscopy, and other wide-data settings where predictors vastly outnumber observations.

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Partial Least Squares Regression (PLS)
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / machine-learning
  • Wold, S., Sjöström, M., & Eriksson, L. (2001). PLS-regression: a basic tool of chemometrics. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 58(2), 109–130. · DOI 10.1016/S0169-7439(01)00155-1
  • Geladi, P., & Kowalski, B. R. (1986). Partial least-squares regression: a tutorial. Analytica Chimica Acta, 185, 1–17. · DOI 10.1016/0003-2670(86)80028-9
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See alsoMultiple Linear Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyPrincipal Components Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRidge Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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