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LASSO II
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¥    where ajk is the jth element in the kth EOF, and t is a Ôtuning parameterÕ. As t ¨ 0, an increasing number of loadings are driven to 0.
¥The technique is named SCoTLASS (Simplified Component Technique – LASSO).
¥Zou et al. (2006) have an ÔimprovedÕ version of SCoTLASS, with an implementation in R