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Multivariate imputation by chained equations (MICE) is one of the most popular approaches to address missing values in a data set. This approach requires specifying a univariate imputation model for every variable under imputation. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-01 Edoardo Costantini , Kyle M. Lang , Klaas Sijtsma

The article discusses selected problems related to both principal component analysis (PCA) and factor analysis (FA). In particular, both types of analysis were compared. A vector interpretation for both PCA and FA has also been proposed.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Zenon Gniazdowski

Recently popularized randomized methods for principal component analysis (PCA) efficiently and reliably produce nearly optimal accuracy --- even on parallel processors --- unlike the classical (deterministic) alternatives. We adapt one of…

Computation · Statistics 2011-12-23 Nathan Halko , Per-Gunnar Martinsson , Yoel Shkolnisky , Mark Tygert

In the course of the last century, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) have become one of the pillars of modern scientific methods. Although PCA is normally addressed as a statistical tool aiming at finding orthogonal directions on which the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Yariv Aizenbud , Barak Sober

Principal component analysis (PCA) is not only a fundamental dimension reduction method, but is also a widely used network anomaly detection technique. Traditionally, PCA is performed in a centralized manner, which has poor scalability for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Ni An , Steven Weber

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) finds a linear mapping and maximizes the variance of the data which makes PCA sensitive to outliers and may cause wrong eigendirection. In this paper, we propose techniques to solve this problem; we use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Peratham Wiriyathammabhum , Boonserm Kijsirikul

We study attention mechanisms through the lens of a canonical unsupervised problem: principal component analysis (PCA). We show that, when trained on Gaussian data, both softmax and linear attention layers learn parameters that align with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Rodrigo Maulen-Soto , Claire Boyer

Principal component analysis (PCA) requires the computation of a low-rank approximation to a matrix containing the data being analyzed. In many applications of PCA, the best possible accuracy of any rank-deficient approximation is at most a…

Computation · Statistics 2010-06-04 Vladimir Rokhlin , Arthur Szlam , Mark Tygert

At the crossway of machine learning and data analysis, anomaly detection aims at identifying observations that exhibit abnormal behaviour. Be it measurement errors, disease development, severe weather, production quality default(s) (items)…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-06 Romain Valla , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Florence d'Alché-Buc

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a cornerstone of dimensionality reduction, yet its classical formulation relies critically on second-order moments and is therefore fragile in the presence of heavy-tailed data and impulsive noise.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Mario Sayde , Christopher Khater , Jihad Fahs , Ibrahim Abou-Faycal

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a fundamental tool for analyzing multivariate data. Here the focus is on dimension reduction to the principal subspace, characterized by its projection matrix. The classical principal subspace can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-29 Fabio Centofanti , Mia Hubert , Peter J. Rousseeuw

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a standard dimensionality reduction technique used in various research and applied fields. From an algorithmic point of view, classical PCA can be formulated in terms of operations on a multivariate…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-08 Ayisha Fayomi , Yannis Pantazis , Michail Tsagris , Andrew T. A. Wood

This paper presents a new framework for manifold learning based on a sequence of principal polynomials that capture the possibly nonlinear nature of the data. The proposed Principal Polynomial Analysis (PPA) generalizes PCA by modeling the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-02 Valero Laparra , Sandra Jiménez , Devis Tuia , Gustau Camps-Valls , Jesús Malo

Understanding the inverse equivalent width - luminosity relationship (Baldwin Effect), the topic of this meeting, requires extracting information on continuum and emission line parameters from samples of AGN. We wish to discover whether,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul J. Francis , Beverley J. Wills

Principal component analysis (PCA) frequently suffers from the disturbance of outliers and thus a spectrum of robust extensions and variations of PCA have been developed. However, existing extensions of PCA treat all samples equally even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Rui Zhang , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li

Classical methods such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) are ubiquitous in statistics. However, these techniques are only able to reveal linear relationships in data. Although nonlinear variants…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-05-14 David Lopez-Paz , Suvrit Sra , Alex Smola , Zoubin Ghahramani , Bernhard Schölkopf

We provide a remedy for two concerns that have dogged the use of principal components in regression: (i) principal components are computed from the predictors alone and do not make apparent use of the response, and (ii) principal components…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-06-23 R. Dennis Cook , Liliana Forzani

This paper compares two neural network input selection schemes, the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and the Automatic Relevance Determination (ARD) based on Mac-Kay's evidence framework. The PCA takes all the input data and projects it…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 L. Mdlazi , T. Marwala , C. J. Stander , C. Scheffer , P. S. Heyns

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a popular dimension reduction technique often used to visualize high-dimensional data structures. In genomics, this can involve millions of variables, but only tens to hundreds of observations.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Kristoffer Hellton , Magne Thoresen

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a commonly used pattern analysis method that maps high-dimensional data into a lower-dimensional space maximizing the data variance, that results in the promotion of separability of data. Inspired by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-20 Xiaoqiang Hua , Yusuke Ono , Linyu Peng , Yuting Xu
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