[GRASS-dev] PCA (i.pca) in G7: filtering and rescaling
Markus Metz
markus.metz.giswork at gmail.com
Thu Dec 5 00:21:53 PST 2013
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Nikos Alexandris
<nik at nikosalexandris.net> wrote:
> Nikos Alexandris:
>> > Here, immediate effect when percent=99.68. I guess it gets rounded to
>> > 99.7 ?
>
> Moritz Lennert:
>> Actually, the man page says "percent=integer". The input is treated with
>> atoi(). I don't know if that rounds or floors..
I think it truncates = floor for positive numbers.
>
> Heck, overlooked that :-(. In my very humble and ever-wannabe-scientist
> opinnion, though, we need those extra digits to make it easy rejecting last
> Principal Component(s) prior to the backward PCA. Might be one, two or
> numerous (?) depending on the dimensions.
I think it rather depends in the amount of information encoded in each PC.
Alternatively, PC selection could also be based on the Eigenvalue,
typically all PCs with an Eigenvalue >= 1 (centered and scaled input)
would be used.
Markus M
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