principal component analysis

conversion of a set of observations of possibly correlated variables into a set of values of linearly uncorrelated variables called principal components
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principal component analysis

Summary

principal component analysis is a statistical method[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of statistical_method entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,975 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • principal component analysis's instance of is recorded as statistical method[3].
  • principal component analysis is a type of multivariate statistics[4].
  • principal component analysis is used for dimensionality reduction[5].
  • principal component analysis's Commons category is recorded as Principal component analysis[6].
  • principal component analysis's facet of is recorded as unsupervised learning[7].
  • principal component analysis's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'ACP'}[8].
  • principal component analysis's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'PCA'}[9].
  • principal component analysis's different from is recorded as LFMM[10].
  • principal component analysis's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[11].
  • principal component analysis's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[12].

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Definition and Type

principal component analysis's instance of is recorded as statistical method[3]. It is a type of multivariate statistics[4].

Use and Application

principal component analysis is used for dimensionality reduction[5].

Why It Matters

principal component analysis ranks in the top 3% of statistical_method entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,975 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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