Principal Components Example 1 The PRINCOMP Procedure Observations 12 Variables 2 Simple Statistics x1 x2 Mean 8.083333333 3.083333333 StD 4.660439568 4.541892544 Covariance Matrix x1 x2 x1 21.71969697 15.53787879 x2 15.53787879 20.62878788 Total Variance 42.348484848 Eigenvalues of the Covariance Matrix Eigenvalue Difference Proportion Cumulative 1 36.7216923 31.0948998 0.8671 0.8671 2 5.6267925 0.1329 1.0000 Eigenvectors Prin1 Prin2 x1 0.719404 -.694592 x2 0.694592 0.719404 Principal Components Example 2 Obs x1 x2 Prin1 Prin2 1 16 8 9.11036 -1.96179 2 12 10 7.62193 2.25539 3 13 6 5.56296 -1.31682 4 11 2 1.34579 -2.80525 5 10 8 4.79394 2.20577 6 9 -1 -2.17680 -3.57427 7 8 4 0.57676 0.71734 8 7 6 1.24654 2.85074 9 5 -3 -6.44360 -2.23471 10 3 -1 -6.49322 0.59328 11 2 -3 -8.60181 -0.15094 12 1 1 -6.54284 3.42127