The principal components of human dimensions are height, girth, torso length, hands and feet, shoulders, head, pelvis, and ears.

New post at Probably Overthinking It: https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2023/09/04/how-principal-are-your-components/

How Principal Are Your Components?

This post is an offshoot from Chapter 1 of Probably Overthinking It, which is available for pre-order now! In a previous post I explored the correlations between measurements in the ANSUR-II datase…

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