In multivariate data analysis, regression techniques predict one set of variables from another while principal component analysis (PCA) finds a subspace of minimal dimensionality that captures the largest variability in the data.

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• How can regression analysis and PCA be combined in a beneficial way?
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• Why and when is it a good idea to combine them?
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• What kind of benefits are we getting from them?
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Addressing these questions, Constrained Principal Component Analysis and Related Techniques shows how constrained PCA (CPCA) offers a unified framework for these approaches.

The book begins with four concrete examples of CPCA that provide readers with a basic understanding of the technique and its applications. It gives a detailed account of two key mathematical ideas in CPCA: projection and singular value decomposition. The author then describes the basic data requirements, models, and analytical tools for CPCA and their immediate extensions. He also introduces techniques that are special cases of or closely related to CPCA and discusses several topics relevant to practical uses of CPCA. The book concludes with a technique that imposes different constraints on different dimensions (DCDD), along with its analytical extensions. MATLAB (R) programs for CPCA and DCDD as well as data to create the book's examples are available on the author's website.

About the Author

Yoshio Takane is an emeritus professor at McGill University and an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria. He is a former president of the Psychometric Society and a recipient of a Career Award from the Behaviormetric Society of Japan and a Special Award from the Japanese Psychological Association. His recent interests include regularization techniques for multivariate data analysis, acceleration methods for iterative model fitting, the development of structural equation models for analyzing brain connectivity, and various kinds of singular value decompositions. He earned his DL from the University of Tokyo and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Reviews

"Takane is a renowned worker in this field and he draws upon his vast array of papers in the area to write an extremely informative review of the subject. ... To bring together all the topics contained in the book, and to present them in such a clear and concise manner, is a great achievement. The author's aim of promoting principal component analysis as more than just an exploratory data analysis tool has been achieved. ... For those interested in the topic, the book is worth purchasing. It would be a useful addition to any library. I wholeheartedly recommend this book."
-Journal of Applied Statistics, 2014

"Coverage of principal component analysis (PCA) in books ranges from chapters to entire texts. ... None of these books nor this line of research, however, describes PCA from the perspective of this text. ...Though emphasizing algebra, Takane provides numerous examples that illustrate the methodology."
-Robert A. Stine, Journal of the American Statistical Association, September 2014, Vol. 109

Book Information
ISBN 9780367576288
Author Yoshio Takane
Format Paperback
Page Count 251
Imprint Chapman & Hall/CRC
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 640g