{"id":11860,"date":"2019-02-03T08:02:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T07:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=11860"},"modified":"2019-02-03T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T11:04:03","slug":"what-is-principle-component-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/02\/what-is-principle-component-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"What is principle component analysis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a wonderful description at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stats.stackexchange.com\/questions\/2691\/making-sense-of-principal-component-analysis-eigenvectors-eigenvalues\">stats.stackexchange.com\u00a0<\/a>how science should be taught<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine a big family dinner, where everybody starts asking you about PCA. First you explain it to your great-grandmother; then to you grandmother; then to your mother; then to your spouse; finally, to your daughter (who is a mathematician). Each time the next person is less of a layman. <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.stackexchange.com\/questions\/2691\/making-sense-of-principal-component-analysis-eigenvectors-eigenvalues\">Here is how the conversation might go<\/a>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This science not by some older science journalists or some younger science slammers but a real expert.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a wonderful description at\u00a0stats.stackexchange.com\u00a0how science should be taught Imagine a big family dinner, where everybody starts asking you about PCA. First you explain it to your great-grandmother; then to you grandmother; then to your mother; then to your spouse; finally, to your daughter (who is a mathematician). Each time the next person is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/02\/what-is-principle-component-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is principle component analysis?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11860"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11870,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions\/11870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}