“…Several methods have been proposed for selecting the value of n. The ratio of the specific singular value to the sum of all the singular values provides a popular selection criterion (Aoki, 1990). An information theoretic approach, such as the Akaike information criterion (AIC), is also used frequently (Candy et al, 1979;Larimore, 1993). Both the inspection of the relative magnitude of singular values and the AIC criteria have been used in our studies for selecting n. While the ad hoc nature of the former approach may cause some arbitrariness in order selection, both approaches have given similar results in our studies.…”