11.1.I'rindpall.:"l11pon~nt Anal~·.i. 567
FIIIUr. 1 :1:.5 An",>gi",,1~mpIeIromlI>e011·_digilsdata...ttOll"1herwithitsPeAre<:onstnxlions
oblair...:!by'e1aio"li!Xl,Ifj)<incipal~n1S10<variousval,," 01 ,If.As,IIincreason
!tiere<:onst,uctiOfI~smoreao::urateandwoukl~portee!when.-IfK D~
28 x 28 ~."-1.
whereweha"emademoeoftherelation
x= L" (x'",)u;
,-,
(12.21)
AI''''''''/;'\'A
Seer/on9.1
whichfollow.fromthecompletene"ofthe{u,I, Thi.represent.acontpre"ioo
"fthedata>ct. Ilttau>eforeachdatapoimweha,..repla«dthe V·dimensiooal
"o<:lorx"Wilhan,I[.din>en,ional"o<:torhavingcomponem,(x~'" _X'",).11Ie
'mailerthe"alueofM.thegreaterthedegreeofcomp.-e",ion. Example.ofPeA
,""on't""tioosofdatapointsforthedigitsdatasetareshowninFigure12.5
Anolherapplicationofpriocipalcompcmenlanaly,i.i'todatapre-processing.
Inthi'case,lhegoalisnO!dimensionalityredUC1ionbutratherthetmn,formmionof
a dataselinor<k'tostanda'lli'.eeenainofilSpmpenies.Thiscanbein'portanlin
allowing.ubsequentpallem,""ognitionalgorithm. 10 beappliedsuccessfully 10 the
data>ct.Typically.il isdonewilentheoriginal"ariable.aremea,uredin"arioosdif.
ferentunil'or!la"esignificantlydifTerent,'ariabilil}'.ForinstanceintheOldFaithful
datasel.thetimebetv.-eeneruption.i.typicanyanorderofmagni1Udegreaterthan
lhedUrali"" of.nerupt;,,". WhenW'eappliedthe".nlCansalgorill"" 10 thi<data
set,".-efirstmadeasepar.telinearre-sealingoftheindividual"anable'socbthm
each"ariablehadzeromeanandunit"ariance.llUsisknownasslllNlardiv·.,gthe
dota.andthecO\'anancematrixforlhe'lando,di/,eddalahascomponents
(12,22)
where<1,isthe,'anaoceof:c,.Thisi<knownasthe(",,,el,,,;,,,,matri.'oftheoriginal
dotaandha'thepropenythaiif t""orompooent,X;andx,ofthedataareperfee1ly
correl.ted.thenAi_ I.•ndiftheya.-euocorrelated.thenAi_O.
11",,'1""',usingPeAwecanmakeaIt>Of'esubst.mialnonnalizat;ooofthedata
togi\'Cit zeromeanandunitco'·ariance.sothatdifferent"anablesbecomederorre-
late<l Todothis.wefirst""riletheei8Cn"cclorequation(12,17)intheform
su=UL (12.23)