[R] reduced major axis regression

[Martin Henry H. Stevens]

With the help of J. Baron's search engine, I found an old thread on reduced 
major axis regression (see below). Prior to my creating a really awkward 
function to accomplish RMA regression, I was wondering if anyone might 
clarify Dr. Ripley's casual comments below.

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Pete St. Onge wrote:
 >.......My
 > understanding in the latter is that it minimizes the squares of both the
 > horizontal and vertical distances from the regression line, and thus do not
 > impart any particular 'accuracy' to the predictor variable. ....
Ripley wrote:
...The sum of squares
of horizontal and vertical distances i just Euclidean distance^2 to the
projection on to the line, so this is just PCA. Use princomp and
take the first principal component.

****My question...take and do what with it?
thanks very much,
Henry


Martin Henry H. Stevens, Assistant Professor
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