statistic variable importance in projection vip(object) https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/mixOmics/versions/6.3.2/topics/vip VIP Philippe Rocca-Serra term request from Ralf Weber and Gavin Lloyd, University of Birmingham variable importance in projection is a measure computed as part of a partial least square regression to accumulate the importance of each variable j being reflected by w from each component. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemolab.2012.07.010 and S. Wold, E. Johansson, M. Cocchi PLS: Partial Least Squares Projections to Latent Structures, 3D QSAR in drug design, 1 (1993), pp. 523-550 ready for release