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Applying separative non-negative matrix factorization to extra-financial data

Computational Finance 2022-06-10 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

We present here an original application of the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) method, for the case of extra-financial data. These data are subject to high correlations between co-variables, as well as between observations. NMF provides a much more relevant clustering of co-variables and observations than a simple principal component analysis (PCA). In addition, we show that an initial data separation step before applying NMF further improves the quality of the clustering.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2206.04350,
  title  = {Applying separative non-negative matrix factorization to extra-financial data},
  author = {P Fogel and C Geissler and P Cotte and G Luta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.04350},
  year   = {2022}
}
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