The Minimax criterion is considered as an alternative to the least-squares method in determination of principal components Estimated coefficients are formulated as linear programming problem The offered approach was experimentally checked using well known test data sets On these data sets the...

The paper addresses the issue of linguistic diversity and its impact on economic policy and political decisions. Importance of the topic is illustrated by examination of optimal sets of official languages in the European Union. It is shown that alternative estimation methods of language...