Principal Component Approximation and Interpretation in Health Survey and Biobank Data

Background: Increasing numbers of variables in surveys and administrative databases are created. Principal component analysis (PCA) is important to summarize data or reduce dimensionality. However, one disadvantage of using PCA is the interpretability of the principal components (PCs), especially in...

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Main Authors: Yi-Sheng Chao, Hsing-Chien Wu, Chao-Jung Wu, Wei-Chih Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Digital Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fdigh.2018.00011/full