A New Deletion Criterion of Principal Components Regression with Orientations of the Parameters

The principal components regression is one of the substitues for least squares method when there exists multicollinearity in the multiple linear regression model. It is observed graphically that the performance of the principal components regression is strongly dependent upon the values of the parameters. Accordingly, a new deletion criterion which determines proper principal components to be deleted from the analysis is developed and its usefulness is checked by simulations.