In this paper we will classify patterns using an algorithm analogous to the k-means algorithm and the principal components regression (PCR). We will also present a financial application in which we apply PCR if the points represent the interests for accounts with different terms.

In this paper we apply the Monte Carlo method to find the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors of a k-symmetric matrix A. At first we add to the main diagonal of A a real number large enough to obtain a covariance matrix B and we take into account that the minimum sum of the squares in the principal...