C# Principal Component Analysis

Principal Component Analysis is frequently referred to as PCA.

NMath Stats from CenterSpace Software is a .NET class library that provides functions for statistical computation and biostatistics, including descriptive statistics, probability distributions, combinatorial functions, multiple linear regression, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and multivariate statistics.

In NMath Stats, class DoublePCA and FloatPCA perform principal component analyses. An instance is constructed from a matrix or a dataframe containing numeric data. Each column represents a variable, and each row represents an observation. The data may optionally be zero-centered and scaled to have unit variance. This functionality can be called from any .NET language including VB.NET and F#.

The NMath Stats library is part of CenterSpace Software's NMath Suite of numerical libraries, which provides building blocks for mathematical, financial, engineering, and scientific applications on the .NET platform. Features include matrix and vector classes, linear algebra, random number generators, numerical integration methods, interpolation, statistics, biostatistics, multiple linear regression, analysis of variance (ANOVA), optimization, and object-oriented interfaces to public domain computing packages such as the BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) and LAPACK (Linear Algebra PACKage). All NMath routines are callable from any .NET language, including C#, Visual Basic.NET, and F#.

PCA Documentation

Complete documentation for all NMath libraries is available online. For more information on principal component analysis, see:

• The section on principal component analysis in the NMath Stats User's Guide
• API documentation for class DoublePCA and FloatPCA in the NMath Stats Reference Guide.

• The CenterSpace blog has several articles on data clustering in general, and specifically on using NMath Stat's PCA algorithm with code examples.
  • Clusting Analysis using PCA

  Addition background information on the PCA algorithm can be found at Wikipedia.

  • Wikipedia PCA article

PCA Code Examples

All NMath libraries include extensive code examples in both C# and Visual Basic.NET. Studying these examples is one of the best ways to learn how to use NMath libraries. For more information on principal component analysis, see:

• PrincipalComponentExample [C#]  [VB.NET]
  Example showing how to perform a principal component analysis on a data set.

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