April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
532 pages
12h 39m
English
PCA operates on a data matrix X, and seeks to extract a set of k principal components from X. The principal components are each uncorrelated to each other, and are computed such that the first principal component accounts for the largest variation in the input data. Each subsequent principal component is, in turn, computed such that it accounts for the largest variation, provided that it is independent of the principal components computed so far.
In this way, the k principal components returned are guaranteed to account for the highest amount of variation in the input data possible. Each principal component, in fact, has the same feature dimensionality as the original data matrix. Hence, a projection step is ...
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