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I am doing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on assets data for household income prediction. The problem is that the assets data are rank ordered (usually binary ... possess car/don't possess car), so the normal correlation is inappropriate for the calculation of the PCA. Instead one has to use the polychoric correlation coefficient. It uses the "random.polychor.pa" package.

When I look through archives at https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2003-October/040525.html I see this: Liaw, Andy wrote: >In the `Detail' section of ?princomp: > >princomp only handles so-called Q-mode PCA, that is feature extraction of >variables. If a data matrix is supplied (possibly via a formula) it is >required that there are at least as many units as variables. For

Dear all, perhaps I am using princomp.formula and prcomp.formula in a way that is not documented to work, but then the documentation just says: formula: a formula with no response variable. Thus, to avoid a lot of typing, it would be nice if one could use '.' and '-' in the formula, e.g. > library(DAAG) > res <- prcomp(~ . - case - site - Pop - sex, possum)

In comparing the results of princomp and prcomp I find: 1. The reported standard deviations are similar but about 1% from each other, which seems well above round-off error. 2. princomp returns what I understand are variances and cumulative variances accounted for by each principal component which are all equal. "SS loadings" is always 1. 3. Same happens

Hi, I am using R to do a principal components analysis for a class which is generally using SPSS - so some of my question relates to SPSS output (and this might not be the right place). I have scoured the mailing list and the web but can't get a feel for this. It is annoying because they will be marking to the SPSS output. Basically I'm getting different values for the component

Some webpage has described prcomp and princomp, but I am still not quite sure what the major difference between them is. Can they be used interchangeably? In help, it says 'princomp' only handles so-called R-mode PCA, that is feature extraction of variables. If a data matrix is supplied (possibly via a formula) it is required that there are at least as many units as

I am working with data sets in which the number and order of columns may vary, but each column is uniquely identified by its name. E.g., one data set might have columns MW logP Num_Rings Num_H_Donors while another has columns Num_Rings Num_Atoms Num_H_Donors logP MW I would like to be able to perform a principal component analysis (PCA) on one data set and save the PCA object to

According to R help: princomp() uses eigenvalues of covariance data. prcomp() uses the SVD method. yet when I run the (eg., USArrests) data example and compare with my own "hand-written" versions of PCA I get what looks like the opposite. Example: comparing the variances I see: Using prcomp(USArrests) ------------------------------------- Standard deviations: [1] 83.732400 14.212402

Dear R folk: Perhaps I'm just dense today, but I am having trouble reproducing the principal components plotted and summarized by clusplot. Here is a brief example using the pluton dataset. clusplot reports that the first two principal components explain 99.7% of the variability. But this is not what princomp is reporting. I would greatly appreciate any advice. With best regards, -- Tom

[Re-directing to R-devel, as I think this needs changes to the code.] Can I suggest a modification to stats:predict.princomp so that it will check for column (variable) names? In src/library/stats/R/princomp-add.R, insert the following after line 4: if (!is.null(cn <- names(object$center))) newdata <- newdata[, cn] Now Dana's example looks like: > predict(pca1, frz) Error in

I start a clean session of R 1.9.1 on Windows and I run the following code: > library(MASS) > data(painters) > pca.painters <- princomp(painters[ ,1:4]) > loadings(pca.painters) Loadings: Comp.1 Comp.2 Comp.3 Comp.4 Composition 0.484 -0.376 0.784 -0.101 Drawing 0.424 0.187 -0.280 -0.841 Colour -0.381 -0.845 -0.211 -0.310 Expression 0.664 -0.330 -0.513

Hello, I have a problem with the princomp method, it seems stupid but I don't know how to handle it. I have a dataset with some regular data and some outliers. I want to calculate a PCA on the regular data and get the scores for all data, including the outliers. Is this possible on R? Thank you for helping!!! -- View this message in context:

x=rmvnorm(2000, rep(0, 6), diag(c(5, rep(1,5)))) x=scale(x, center=T, scale=F) pc <- princomp(x) biplot(pc) There are a bunch of red arrows plotted, what do they mean? I knew that the first arrow labelled with "Var1" should be pointing the most varying direction of the data-set (if we think them as 2000 data points, each being a vector of size 6). I also read from

Dear useRs: I'm not sure if it's the correct place to ask but I'll try it out. I've been reading about how to perform Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in microarrays (see [1]) and there's something that I don't get it. Basically it's related with performing PCA over data sets which number of variables is greater than the number of samples. For example in the paper

Dear all, I have a question about the 'sdev' value returned by the princomp function (which does principal components analysis). On the help page for princomp it says 'sdev' is 'the standard deviations of the principal components'. However, when I calculate the principal components for the USArrests data set, I don't find this to be the case: Here is how I

Hi everyone. I performing a simple PCA using the princomp function. Then, I use the biplot function to show it. However, the function use line number to represent samples. I would like to know if there's a way to use a dot (point) instead of the line number when using the biplot function. With regards, Phil -- View this message in context:

Hi all: I am trying to do PCA on the following matrix. N1 N2 A1 A2 B1 B2 gene_a 90 110 190 210 290 310 gene_b 190 210 390 410 590 610 gene_c 90 110 110 90 120 80 gene_d 200 100 400 90 600 200 >dataf<-read.table("matrix") >

Hi R People: When performing PCA, should I use prcomp, princomp or fast.prcomp, please? thanks. Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com

Greetings, I am working on a stylometric analysis of some latin texts; one of the latest stylometric techniques involves using principal components analysis. Not being a statistician, I can't really fully rely on PCA as my primary tool, since I don't really understand the statistics behind the PCA technique. Nevertheless, the ability to use PCA and graph the results has been

Hi, I just wonder if this is a rounding error by the princomp command in R. Although this does not make much sense, using a hypothetical dataset, a, a<-matrix(runif(1000),100,10) I did PCA with the princomp, and compared it with the results estimated with the eigen and the prcomp commands. And I found some differences in the results: opposite signs in the loadings; slight differences in