PCA

Principal component analysis (PCA or MCA on overall covariance matrix)

    [W,FRAC] = PCA(A,N)
    [W,N] = PCA(A,FRAC)

Input
A	Dataset
N	or FRAC Number of dimensions (>= 1) or fraction of variance (< 1) to retain; if > 0, perform PCA; otherwise MCA. Default: N = inf.

Output
W	Affine PCA mapping
FRAC	or N Fraction of variance or number of dimensions retained.

Description

This routine performs a principal component analysis (PCA) or minor  component analysis (MCA) on the overall covariance matrix (weighted  by the class prior probabilities). It finds a rotation of the dataset A to  an N-dimensional linear subspace such that at least (for PCA) or at most  (for MCA) a fraction FRAC of the total variance is preserved.

PCA is applied when N (or FRAC) >= 0; MCA when N (or FRAC) < 0. If N is  given (abs(N) >= 1), FRAC is optimised. If FRAC is given (abs(FRAC) < 1),  N is optimised.

Objects in a new dataset B can be mapped by B*W, W*B or by A*PCA([],N)*B.  Default (N = inf): the features are decorrelated and ordered, but no  feature reduction is performed.

ALTERNATIVE

    V = PCA(A,0)

Returns the cumulative fraction of the explained variance. V(N) is the  cumulative fraction of the explained variance by using N eigenvectors.

Use KLM for a principal component analysis on the mean class covariance.  Use FISHERM for optimizing the linear class separability (LDA).

See also

mappings, datasets, pcldc, klldc, klm, fisherm,