Title
Principal Component Analysis: A Natural Approach to Data Exploration
Abstract
AbstractPrincipal component analysis (PCA) is often applied for analyzing data in the most diverse areas. This work reports, in an accessible and integrated manner, several theoretical and practical aspects of PCA. The basic principles underlying PCA, data standardization, possible visualizations of the PCA results, and outlier detection are subsequently addressed. Next, the potential of using PCA for dimensionality reduction is illustrated on several real-world datasets. Finally, we summarize PCA-related approaches and other dimensionality reduction techniques. All in all, the objective of this work is to assist researchers from the most diverse areas in using and interpreting PCA.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3447755
ACM Computing Surveys
Keywords
Field
DocType
Statistical methods, principal component analysis, dimensionality reduction, data visualization, covariance and correlation
Dimensionality reduction,Data exploration,Natural approach,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics,Principal component analysis,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
54
4
0360-0300
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
7