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Basic Statistics
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03 Dec 2008 11:29 AM
    Hello everyone.   I am new to ENVI and so I am trying to find my way around and so far so good. However, I have a question regarding the output of the Basic Tools/Computing statistics module. I have asked the program to calculate the Covariance and so in the output it shows the covariance and the correlation matrix, the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors. So far I haven't been able to find out how were the correlation coeficients calculated. Meaning what statistic was used. I addition I am confused by the layout of the Eigenvector matrix, in which both rowas and columns represent tha bands. Can any one shed some light on this? Shouldn't be the columns representing the factors (vectors?). Finally, I want to ask how can I get hold of the ENVI User's Guide, the web interface keeps crashing on me when I try to open the pdf, and I haven't been able to find it anywhere else.   Thank you very much

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    04 Dec 2008 08:01 AM
    The covariance and correlation matricies are calculated in the standard manner.  Correlation is calculated from variance-covariance matrix by taking the product of the square root of each bands variance.  The diagonal represents the bands correlation with itself and thus equals 1. The eigenvector matrix is sometimes hard to interpret but it is the rows that represent the eigenvector for each output PCA band. The ENVI user's guide in PDF is the same as that online when you use ENVI's help menu.

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    04 Dec 2008 11:26 AM
    Thank you very much for the information.   My question regarding the correlation is because this standard correlation coeficient is a parametric statistic and the data from my satellite images is far from normal. Any suggestions??    
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