ABSTRACT

CONTENTS 13.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 13.2 Algorithms for SIR Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 13.3 Relative Projection Pursuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 13.4 SIRrpp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 13.5 Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for Sliced Inverse Regression (SIR). SIR is a model for dimension-reduction of explanatory variables. There are several algorithms for the SIR model: SIR I, SIR II, etc. We have proposed an algorithm named SIRpp (SIR with Projection Pursuit). They find out a set of linear combinations of explanatory variables. In most of SIR algorithms, there is a serious restriction; the distribution of explanatory variables is elliptically symmetric distribution or normal distribution. The restriction should be removed for actual data analysis.