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Principal Component Analysis
Principal Component Analysis Overview
Use principal component analysis to analyze asset returns in order to identify the underlying statistical factors.
The statistical factors are the independent sources of risk that drive the portfolio variance, and the returns of each corresponding
principal portfolio will have zero correlation to one another.
You can perform the principal component analysis on either the correlation matrix or the covariance matrix based on the daily or monthly returns.