Handbook of Anomaly Detection: With Python Outlier Detection — (5) PCA

Chris Kuo/Dr. Dataman
Dataman in AI
Published in
9 min readOct 8, 2022

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Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is one of the popular techniques in data analysis. It performs a linear transformation to convert a set of data points of possibly correlated variables into a set of data points of linearly uncorrelated variables.

In this chapter, I will explain why a technique of dimensionality reduction can find outliers. I…

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Chris Kuo/Dr. Dataman
Dataman in AI

The Dataman articles are my reflections on data science and teaching notes at Columbia University https://sps.columbia.edu/faculty/chris-kuo