“…Recently, principle component analysis (PCA) related methods are proposed by He, Wang, and Cook (2011), Osma (2011), Peruchi, Balestrassi, de Paiva, Ferreira, and de Santana Carmelossi (2013) and Wang (2013) for analyzing gauge variation. He et al (2011) proposed a modified principal component analysis (PCA) method to transform multivariate measurement data with dependent variables into those with independent principal components.…”