CD.2: Principal Components Analysis

R codes forPrincipal Component Analysis

PCTexture <- prcomp(TxPredLib, scale=T)

print(PCTexture)

summary(PCTexture)

par(mfrow=c(1,1), oma = c(1,1,0,0) + 0.1, mar = c(3,3,1,1) + 0.1)

plot(PCTexture, type="line", col=c("dark blue"), main="", pch=19) ## Scree plot

mtext("Screeplot of Texture", side=1, line=3, cex=0.8)

biplot(PCTexture, pch=19, cex=0.6, col=c("olivedrab1", "blue"))

TextureScore <- PCTexture$x[,1:8]

TextureMasterPCScore <- cbind(TextureScore, TxClassLib)

# Used for model fitting and 10-fold cross-validation

With such a high degree of dependency it is recommended that a PCA is done on the data and only the top few components are used for classification.

principal components analysis table

scree plot

From the table and the screeplot above it is clear that it is sufficient to consider only the first 8 PCs. They are given below.

principal components analysis table

For classification, therefore, only the first 8 PCs will be used, instead of all the 40 attributes.

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