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Jolliffe I. Principal Component Analysis (2ed., Springer, 2002)(518s)

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80 5. Graphical Representation of Data Using <strong>Principal</strong> <strong>Component</strong>sFinally, we note that as well as the graphical representations describedin the present chapter, we have already seen, in Section 4.3, one other typeof plot that uses PCs. This type of plot is rather specialized, but is usedextensively in atmospheric science. Related plots are discussed further inChapter 12.5.1 Plotting Data with Respect to the First Two(or Three) <strong>Principal</strong> <strong>Component</strong>sThe idea here is simple: if a data set {x 1 , x 2 ,...,x n } has p variables, thenthe observations can be plotted as points in p-dimensional space. If we wishto plot the data in a ‘best-fitting’ q-dimensional subspace (q

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