Principal component analysis for dimension reduction

15.03.2022 14:00 - 14:20

Caroline Moosmüller (University of California, San Diego)

 

 

Abstract: To visualize or cluster high-dimensional data sets, it may be necessary to reduce the dimension. Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the major linear methods to find a low-dimensional representation of a data set. In this lecture, we will introduce PCA from two different viewpoints: (1) by finding the best d-dimensional affine subspace to approximate the data, and (2) by finding the d-dimensional projection that preserves as much variance of the data as possible. We will conclude by showing that these interpretations are actually equivalent.

Organiser:

R. I. Boţ

Location:
HS 15, 2. OG, OMP1