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In this paper, we propose and study a Nystr\"om based approach to efficient large scale kernel principal component analysis (PCA). The latter is a natural nonlinear extension of classical PCA based on considering a nonlinear feature map or…

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To do dimensionality reduction on the datasets with outliers, the $\ell_1$-norm principal component analysis (L1-PCA) as a typical robust alternative of the conventional PCA has enjoyed great popularity over the past years. In this work, we…

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Principal component analysis (PCA) is traditionally implemented through a covariance or kernel matrix, leading-eigenvector extraction, and hard rank-$k$ projection. These steps can be computationally costly in high-dimensional and…

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Principal component analysis (PCA) is arguably the most popular tool in multivariate exploratory data analysis. In this paper, we consider the question of how to handle heterogeneous variables that include continuous, binary, and ordinal.…

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Principal component analysis (PCA) is a classical and ubiquitous method for reducing data dimensionality, but it is suboptimal for heterogeneous data that are increasingly common in modern applications. PCA treats all samples uniformly so…

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Ordinal data occur frequently in the social sciences. When applying principal component analysis (PCA), however, those data are often treated as numeric implying linear relationships between the variables at hand, or non-linear PCA is…

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