Abstract
It is an established
matter that the total information in multivariate data is defined
as the sum of eigenvalues of the variance-covariance matrix. In
this article I challenge this time-honored tradition and look
at another definition of the total information in data from a
dual scaling perspective. This proposal is a step toward unifying
the concept of information for both discrete and continuous variables.
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