Principal Component Analysis: Part II (Practice)

In Part I of our series on Principal Component Analysis (PCA), we covered a theoretical overview of fundamental concepts and disucssed several inferential procedures. Here, we aim to complement our theoretical exposition with a step-by-step practical implementation using EViews. In particular, we are motivated by a desire to apply PCA to some dataset in order to identify its most important features and draw any inferential conclusions that may exist. We will proceed in the following steps: