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Principal Component Analysis: Properties and Applications

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This lecture covers the theory and applications of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in multivariate statistics. It explains the definition and properties of principal components, including population and sample principal components. The lecture discusses the correlation structure, choice of components, and graphical representations. Additionally, it explores sampling properties, hypothesis testing, and the use of PCA in regression analysis.

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Statistics

Statistical inference: Mathematical statistics

Data analysis: Regression analysis

Mathematics

Algebra: Linear algebra

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In probability theory and statistics, the multivariate normal distribution, multivariate Gaussian distribution, or joint normal distribution is a generalization of the one-dimensional (univariate) normal distribution to higher dimensions. One definition is that a random vector is said to be k-variate normally distributed if every linear combination of its k components has a univariate normal distribution. Its importance derives mainly from the multivariate central limit theorem.

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Correlation

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