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Interpretation of plots (PCA, Volcano)

I'd like to ask if somebody can help me to understand these plots, the meaning of dots dispersion on the plots. I can't understand how to read these plots. Link to the article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih....
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How to interpret the representation of data in principal plane?

I have the data X contains the grades of some students in 4 subjects: ...
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Use historical data to build surface with limited number of points [closed]

Lets say I have historical surfaces of data which vary slightly during time, but keeps similiar dynamics. I would like to use these historical data sets to estimate todays surface (given a limited ...
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Visualizing and interpreting principal components [duplicate]

I have performed principal component analysis (PCA) in Matlab via [U,S,V] = svd(X) Now I have to show the principal directions of the considered principal ...
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Interpretation of biplot in PCA

Blue points all appear in the lower right-hand quadrant in the plane formed by the first two principal components. Is it a good interpretation of the biplot (right panel) to say that blue points are ...
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Interpretation of biplots in principal components analysis

I came across this nice tutorial: A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R. Chapter 13. Principal Component Analysis: The Olympic Heptathlon on how to do PCA in R language. I don't understand the ...
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