Re: [R] sdev, variance in prcomp

2012-04-09 Thread Kevin Wright
It is reporting _proportion_ of the total variance. Not the variance. The total variance is the sum of all the squared standard deviations. Only the first 3 standard deviations are shown. Kevin On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:31 PM, carol white wrote: > Hello, > It might be a trivial question but

[R] sdev, variance in prcomp

2012-04-09 Thread carol white
Hello, It might be a trivial question but I just wanted to find out the relationship between sdev and proportion of variance generated by prcomp. I got the following result from my data set PC1  PC2  PC3 Standard deviation 104.89454 15.40910 9.012047 Prop