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Figure 1. Usually, data can be organized as a table, a matrix, here denoted X, with N rows=observations and K columns=variables. Provided the variation between the observations is moderate, X can be approximated by a bilinear model (latent variable model) with just a few components (A in number). The smaller the variation between the observations, the fewer components are needed to well approximate X. A residual matrix, E (not shown) comprises the difference between the data matrix, X, and the model, that is, E=X-T P’.  The interpretation of the model is helped by the layers, tap, , appearing in the order of importance, with the first layer (a= 1) explaining more of the variation in X than the second layer (a=2), and so on. And the expansion is terminated when the components, layers, no longer explain significant parts of X as determined, for instance, by cross-validation (CV). The number

Figure 1 Usually, data can be organized as a table, a matrix, here denoted X, with N rows=observations and K columns=variables. Provided the variation between the observations is moderate, X can be approximated by a bilinear model (latent variable model) with just a few components (A in number). The smaller the variation between the observations, the fewer components are needed to well approximate X. A residual matrix, E (not shown) comprises the difference between the data matrix, X, and the model, that is, E=X-T P’. The interpretation of the model is helped by the layers, tap, , appearing in the order of importance, with the first layer (a= 1) explaining more of the variation in X than the second layer (a=2), and so on. And the expansion is terminated when the components, layers, no longer explain significant parts of X as determined, for instance, by cross-validation (CV). The number