October 2017
Beginner to intermediate
572 pages
26h 1m
English
In this recipe, we demonstrate how to use a scree plot to determine the number of principal components. In a scree plot, there are two types of plots, namely, bar plots and line plots. As both generated scree plots reveal, the obvious change in slope (the so-called elbow or knee) occurs at component 2. As a result, we should retain component 1, where the component is in a steep curve before component 2, which is where the flat line trend commences. However, as this method can be ambiguous, you can use other methods (such as the Kaiser method) to determine the number of components.
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