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Month: May 2011

Posted on May 15, 2011May 15, 2011

Power series for PCA

Frances Buontempo from BuontempoConsulting

The book says estimate the value of the eigenvector, then iterate.
But my vector cycled as transpose(1,1), transpose(-1, 1), transpose(1, 1) which is a bit of a problem.
Oh for precise instructions.
I'll report back when I find a suitable estimate for the starting value.
Posted on May 1, 2011

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