how do I find the angles between an original and a rotated PCA loadings matrix?
问题 Suppose I have two matrices of PCA loadings loa.orig , and loa.rot , and I know that loa.rot is a rotation (by-hand or otherwise) of loa.orig . ( loa.orig might also have been already orthogonally rotated by varimax or something, but I don't think that matters). I know want to know the angles by which loa.orig has been rotated to arrive at loa.rot . I understand from this comment on another question that "rotations don't commute", and therefore, the order of pair-wise (plane-wise) rotations