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Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err

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St. Petersburg ⇨ Freiburg ⇨ London ⇨ Lisboa ⇨ Tübingen
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923 Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors & eigenvalues Mar 6 '15

308 Relationship between SVD and PCA. How to use SVD to perform PCA? Jan 20 '15

255 Relationship between SVD and PCA. How to use SVD to perform PCA? Jan 20 '15

139 At each step of a limiting infinite process, put 10 balls in an urn and remove one at random. How many balls are left? Nov 25 '17

106 What is the difference between a neural network and a deep neural network, and why do the deep ones work better? Dec 3 '15

97 How to reverse PCA and reconstruct original variables from several principal components? Aug 9 '16

83 ASA discusses limitations of $p$-values - what are the alternatives? Mar 14 '16

79 Is there any good reason to use PCA instead of EFA? Also, can PCA be a substitute for factor analysis? Nov 7 '14

72 How to reverse PCA and reconstruct original variables from several principal components? Aug 9 '16

70 A psychology journal banned p-values and confidence intervals; is it indeed wise to stop using them? Feb 25 '15

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Copy Editor Mar 23 '15
Populist Nov 28 '16
Stellar Question Oct 4 '16

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pca Mar 23 '15
Research Assistant Jan 13 '17
Archaeologist Jan 13 '15

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dimensionality-reduction Feb 9 '15
discriminant-analysis Mar 1 '16
svd May 4 '16

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