The plsdof package provides Degrees of Freedom estimates
for Partial Least Squares (PLS) Regression. Model selection for
PLS is based on various information criteria (aic, bic, gmdl)
or on cross-validation. Estimates for the mean and covariance
of the PLS regression coefficients are available. They allow
the construction of approximate confidence intervals and the
application of test procedures (Kramer and Sugiyama
2012