Lecture 8: Principal components analysis - Bio723-class/Bio723-lecture GitHub Wiki

Learning goals checklist for this class session

• Build a geometric understanding of principal components analysis
• Learn how to carry out and interepret PCA in R

Slides

• Principal Components Analysis

In class and Readings

• Read and work through the chapter on PCA in the Bio 723 Workbook

Assignment

Assignment Submission: Be sure to submit your assignment via Sakai, as an R Markdown file and the knit HTML document produced by your markdown file.

• Assignment 06, due 31 March 2021 by beginning of class.

  -- You can download a template R Markdown document for assignment at: homework-template.Rmd

Readings

• Wickens, T. D. The Geometry of multivariate statistics. -- Chapter 9