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Principal component analysis (PCA) is a linear dimensionality reduction technique. It reduces a multivariate dataset to a smaller set of constructed variables preserving as much information (as much variance) as possible. These variables, called principal components, are linear combinations of the input variables.

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Principal component analysis to reduce the number of observations

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) seems great to reduce the number of variables, but is it also good to reduce the number of observations? … 1 2 A y5 2 2 B y6 3 2 A y7 4 2 B y8 Then, fm <- lme(PCA1 ~ treatment, data=big.data, random = ~ 1| Plant, method="ML") Can PCA
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