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 Incoming links: Principal component function

The Karhunen–Loève expansion writes a centered square-integrable random function as

X = \sum_{k} ξ_{k} ϕ_{k}

in mean square, where the

ϕ_{k}

are principal component functions and the uncorrelated scores satisfy

E ξ_{k}^{2} = λ_{k}