Re: [R-sig-eco] Should one remove highly correlated variables before doing PCA??

2013-03-06 Thread Chris Howden
g-ecology-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Chris Howden > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 10:45 PM > To: 张勇; r-sig-ecology@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R-sig-eco] Should one remove highly correlated variables before > doing PCA?? > > Hi Yong, > > PCA is a way to deal with

Re: [R-sig-eco] Should one remove highly correlated variables before doing PCA??

2013-03-06 Thread Baldwin, Jim -FS
Tuesday, March 05, 2013 10:45 PM To: 张勇; r-sig-ecology@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-sig-eco] Should one remove highly correlated variables before doing PCA?? Hi Yong, PCA is a way to deal with highly correlated variables, so there is no need to remove them. If N variables are highly corre

Re: [R-sig-eco] Should one remove highly correlated variables before doing PCA??

2013-03-05 Thread Chris Howden
ssage- From: r-sig-ecology-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-ecology-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of ?? Sent: Wednesday, 6 March 2013 4:33 PM To: r-sig-ecology@r-project.org Subject: [R-sig-eco] Should one remove highly correlated variables before doing PCA?? Hi list, Maybe this is not a "R

[R-sig-eco] Should one remove highly correlated variables before doing PCA??

2013-03-05 Thread 张勇
Hi list, Maybe this is not a "R" question, however, it has bothered me for a long time. Some people think if a set of correlated variables might "load" onto several principal components (eigenvectors),so including many variables from such a set will differentially weight several eigenvectors--