Properties and Limitations of PCA
As noted above, the results of PCA depend on the scaling of the variables.
The applicability of PCA is limited by certain assumptions made in its derivation.
Read more about this topic: Principal Component Analysis
Famous quotes containing the words properties and/or limitations:
“The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of their property; and the end why they choose and authorize a legislative, is, that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society: to limit the power, and moderate the dominion, of every part and member of the society.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)
“That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)