similar to: pca vs. pfa: dimension reduction

Dear expe-R-ts, I try some test data for a factorAnalysis (resp. pca) in the sense of Prof. Ripley's MASS ? 11.1, p. 330 ff., just to prepare myself for an analysis of my own empirical data using R (instead of SPSS). 1. the data. ## The test data is (from the book of Backhaus et al.: Multivariate ## Analysemethoden. Springer 2000 [9th ed.], p. 300 ff):

Hi, there: I am wondering if anyone here can provide an example using pca doing dimension reduction for a dataset. The dataset can be n*q (n>=q or n<=q). As to dimension reduction, are there other implementations for like ICA, Isomap, Locally Linear Embedding... Thanks, weiwei -- Weiwei Shi, Ph.D "Did you always know?" "No, I did not. But I believed..." ---Matrix III

Hi everyone- I have used several methods to calculate principal components rotated using the varimax procedure. This is simple enough. But I would like to calculate the % of variance explained associated with each PC before and after rotation. factanal returns the % of variance explained associated with each PC but I cannot seem to get it to change after rotation. Many thanks for your

I am very new to factor analysis as well as R. I am trying to run a factor analysis on the residual returns on common stock (residual to some model) and trying to determine if there are any strong factors remaining. After running factanal, I can obtain the factor loadings but how do I get the values of the factor returns themselves? In other words if the relationship is r = lambda * f I

Dear R Helper, I am writing because I seek to perform a varimax rotation on my Principal Components Analysis (PCA) solution. (I have been performing PCA's using the eigen command in R.) If you can tell me how to perform this rotation when I use the eigen command (or the princomp command) I would be thrilled. Thanks so much! Wendy Treynor Ann Arbor, MI USA

Dear Users, I ran factor analysis using R and SAS. However, I had different outputs from R and SAS. Why they provide different outputs? Especially, the factor loadings are different. I did real dataset(n=264), however, I had an extremely different from R and SAS. Why this things happened? Which software is correct on? Thanks in advance, - TY #R code with example data # A little

Hi R-community, I am doing a PCA and I need plots for different combinations of axes (e.g., PC1 vs PC3, and PC2 vs PC3) with the arrows indicating the loadings of each variables. What I need is exactly what I get using biplot (pca.object) but for other axes. I have plotted PC2 and 3 using the scores of the cases, but I don't get the arrows proportional to the loadings of each variables on

Dear all I'm unable to find an example of extracting the rotated scores of a principal components analysis. I can do this easily for the un-rotated version. data(mtcars) .PC <- princomp(~am+carb+cyl+disp+drat+gear+hp+mpg, cor=TRUE, data=mtcars) unclass(loadings(.PC)) # component loadings summary(.PC) # proportions of variance mtcars$PC1 <- .PC$scores[,1] # extract un-rotated scores of

After doing a PCA using princomp, how do you view how much each component contributes to variance in the dataset. I'm still quite new to the theory of PCA - I have a little idea about eigenvectors and eigenvalues (these determine the variance explained?). Are the eigenvalues related to loadings in R? Thanks, Paul -- View this message in context:

hi, I have two questions: #first (SPSS vs. R): I just compared the output of different PCA routines in R (pca, prcomp, princomp) with results from SPSS. the loadings of the variables differ vastly! in SPSS the variables load constantly higher than in R. I made sure that both progr. use the correlation matrix as basis. I found the same problem with rotated values (varimax rotation and rtex=T

Dear all, not really a R question but: If I want to check for the classification accuracy of a LDA with previous PCA for dimensionality reduction by means of the LOOCV method: Is it ok to do the PCA on the WHOLE dataset ONCE and then run the LDA with the CV option set to TRUE (runs LOOCV) -- OR-- do I need - to compute for each 'test-bag' (the n-1 observations) a PCA

Hi all, I am using the vegan package to run a prcincipal components analysis on forest structural variables (tree density, basal area, average height, regeneration density) in R. However, I could not find out how to extract factor loadings (correlations of each variable with each pca axis), as is straightforwar in princomp. Do anyone know how to do that? Moreover, do anyone knows

Hi- I'm trying to make my PCA (princomp) colored. In my csv excel sheet, I have the first column numbered according to the groupings I want to assign to the PCA. I've played around with trying to set this first column as the color vector, but haven't had any luck. Any suggestions? Thanks, Hillary [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I have successfully completed a PCA and printed the loadings, however, numerous values are blank. I know that this means the values are just very small but not equal to zero. Is there a way to print out the loadings, including the very small values, I need them for graphing purposes. Thanks, Xan [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi: I have a large dataset mydata, of 1000 rows and 1000 columns. The rows have gene names and columns have condition names (cond1, cond2, cond3, etc). mydata<- read.table(file="c:/file1.mtx", header=TRUE, sep="") I applied PCA as follows: data_after_pca<- prcomp(mydata, retx=TRUE, center=TRUE, scale.=TRUE); Now i get 1000 PCs and i choose first three PCs and make a

Hi all, I'm trying to do model reduction for logistic regression. I have 13 predictor (4 continuous variables and 9 binary variables). Using subject matter knowledge, I selected 4 important variables. Regarding the rest 9 variables, I tried to perform data reduction by principal component analysis (PCA). However, 8 of 9 variables were binary and only one continuous. I transformed the data by

Hi, I have a problem with making PCA plots that are readable. I would like to set different sympols instead of the numbers of my samples or their names, that I get plotted (xlabs). How is this possible? With points, i don´t seem to get the right data plotted onto the PCA plot, as I do not quite understand from where it is taken. I dont know how to plot the correct columns of the prcomp

Dear colleagues, I a m a beginner with R and I would like to add labels (i.e. the variable names) on a pca loading plot to determine the most relevant variables. Could you please tell me the way to do this kind of stuff. The command I use to draw the pca loading plot is the following : Plot(molprop.pc$loading[,1] ~ molprop.pc$loading[,2]) Thanks for your help Fred Ooms

Dear Folks I need to rotate PCA loadings and scores using R. I have run a pca using princomp and I have rotated PCA results with varimax. Using varimax R gives me back just rotated PC loadings without rotated PC scores. Does anybody know how I can obtain/calculate rotated PC scores with R? Your kindly help is appreciated in advance Francesca [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I'm trying to decide between doing a FA or PCA and would appreciate some pointers. I've got a questionnaire with latent items which the participants answered on a Likert scale, and all I want to do at this point is to explore the data and extract a number of factors/components. Would FA or PCA be most appropriate in this case? Cheers, Hannah -- View this message in context: