How to calculate Covariance Matrix and Principal Components for PCA?

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:40:02 +0000

The dataset with two features $(x,y)$ is shown as follows (note $y$ in this example is the second feature, not a target value):

x	y
2.5	2.4
0.5	0.7
2.2	2.9
1.9	2.2
3.1	3.0
2.3	2.7
2.0	1.6
1.0	1.1
1.5	1.6
1.1	0.9

a) Calculate the Covariance Matrix.
b) Calculate eigenvalues and eigenvectors
c) Calculate all the PCs
d) How much percent of the total variance in the dataset is explained by each PC?

x	y
2.5	2.4
0.5	0.7
2.2	2.9
1.9	2.2
3.1	3.0
2.3	2.7
2.0	1.6
1.0	1.1
1.5	1.6
1.1	0.9

x	y
2.5	2.4
0.5	0.7
2.2	2.9
1.9	2.2
3.1	3.0
2.3	2.7
2.0	1.6
1.0	1.1
1.5	1.6
1.1	0.9

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How to calculate Covariance Matrix and Principal Components for PCA?

x	y
2.5	2.4
0.5	0.7
2.2	2.9
1.9	2.2
3.1	3.0
2.3	2.7
2.0	1.6
1.0	1.1
1.5	1.6
1.1	0.9