Introduction to Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

This video provides an introduction to Principal Component Analysis (PCA). It details the origin, relevance, importance and usage of PCA. Do you want to create an index? Use PCA to compute the eigenvectors and eigenvalues for the principal components.
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