Principal Component Analysis

Overview

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a method of dimension reduction. This is not directly related to the prediction problem, but several regression methods are directly dependent on it. The regression methods (PCR and PLS) will be considered later. Now a motivation for dimension reduction is being set up.

Notation

The input matrix X of dimension $N \times p$ :

$\begin{pmatrix} x_{1,1} & x_{1,2} & ... & x_{1,p} \\ x_{2,1} & x_{2,2} & ... & x_{2,p}\\ ... & ... & ... & ...\\ x_{N,1} & x_{N,2} & ... & x_{N,p} \end{pmatrix}$

The rows of the above matrix represent the cases or observations.

The columns represent the variables observed in each unit. These represent the characteristics.

Assume that the columns of X are centered, i.e., the estimated column mean is subtracted from each column.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this lesson, you should be able to:

Introducing Principal Component Analysis.
The precursor to Regression Techniques after Dimension Reduction.

Source: The Pennsylvania State University, https://online.stat.psu.edu/stat508/lesson/6
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