Transforming a dataset into one with fewer columns is more complicated than it might seem, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in this full-code, step-by-step machine learning tutorial.
Plant Ecology, Vol. 216, No. 5, Special Issue: Statistical Analysis of Ecological Communities: Progress, Status, and Future Directions (MAY 2015), pp. 657-667 (11 pages) Principal component analysis ...
Several measurement techniques used in the life sciences gather data for many more variables per sample than the typical number of samples assayed. For instance, DNA microarrays and mass spectrometers ...