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after PCA, the pc values are so large, wrong?

bbslover <dluthm <at> yeah.net> writes:
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Why is it necessary that the first few principal components
should have significant relationships with some other response
values?  The strength, and weakness, of PCA is that it is
calculated *without regard* to a response variable, so it
does not constitute "data snooping" ... 
  I may of course have misinterpreted your question, but at
a quick look, I don't see anything obviously wrong here.