Btw, 15 (+ one for the unprinted paper) is also the number of neugebauer primaries to be expected for a cmyk print. -Gerhard Gerhard Fuernkranz <nospam456@xxxxxx> schrieb: >Am 16.11.2011 15:07, schrieb Alexey Gribunin: >> By the way, as I understand, number of principal components should be equal >> or less than 36, i.e. maximum spectral bands. Is this correct? > >Yes. > >> Why did you use 15? > >I have selected this value empirically for my data set. The reflectance >spectra of all the 1786 patches in my data set (which was btw. from an inkjet >print, measured with Spectrolino) can be represented as linear combinations of >15 basis vectors with an error of less than 0.01 dE average, and 0.1 dE max, >which is good enough and certainly below the repeatability of the >measurements. Thus more than 15 PCs would just fit more of the noise in the >measurements, and not really improving anything (likely I should have used >even less than 15 for this data set). -- Best Regards Gerhard