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QuantitativeData Analysis 2

Week 1

, 1
Topic PrincipalComponentAnalysis


PrincipalcomponentanalysisPCA

Simplifiercomplexdata
bytransformingthedataintofewerdinemion
Identifierclusters variables
of
PCAisusedwhendata is very Too
manyvariablesconfusedaboutthe ofthevariables
structure

So we prepareraw databeforefurtheranalysis toconceptualoverlap
variablesandprovidingstructures
Byreducingthe number
of
PCAisused
bytransformingvariableintocomponents
therecomponenteare uncorrelatedtoeach
other
Intherawdatacomponentsare latentwhichneam
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component 2


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of
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thisraw data



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thenumberofvariables



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