When choosing the number of principal components (k), we choose k to be the smallest value so that for example, 99% of variance, is retained.
However, in the Python Scikit learn, I am not 100% sure pca.explained_variance_ratio_ = 0.99
is equal to "99% of variance is retained"? Could anyone enlighten? Thanks.
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.decomposition.PCA.html#sklearn.decomposition.PCA
explained_variance_ratio_. cumsum() . That will return a vector x such that x[i] returns the cumulative variance explained by the first i+1 dimensions.
Variance explained by factor analysis must not maximum of 100% but it should not be less than 60%. It should not be less than 60%. If the variance explained is 35%, it shows the data is not useful, and may need to revisit measures, and even the data collection process.
PCA is effected by scale so you need to scale the features in the data before applying PCA. You can transform the data onto unit scale (mean = 0 and variance = 1) which is a requirement for the optimal performance of many machine learning algorithms. StandardScaler helps standardize the dataset's features.
pca = PCA(n_components = number of Principal Components )
Yes, you are nearly right. The pca.explained_variance_ratio_
parameter returns a vector of the variance explained by each dimension. Thus pca.explained_variance_ratio_[i]
gives the variance explained solely by the i+1st dimension.
You probably want to do pca.explained_variance_ratio_.cumsum()
. That will return a vector x
such that x[i]
returns the cumulative variance explained by the first i+1 dimensions.
import numpy as np from sklearn.decomposition import PCA np.random.seed(0) my_matrix = np.random.randn(20, 5) my_model = PCA(n_components=5) my_model.fit_transform(my_matrix) print my_model.explained_variance_ print my_model.explained_variance_ratio_ print my_model.explained_variance_ratio_.cumsum()
[ 1.50756565 1.29374452 0.97042041 0.61712667 0.31529082] [ 0.32047581 0.27502207 0.20629036 0.13118776 0.067024 ] [ 0.32047581 0.59549787 0.80178824 0.932976 1. ]
So in my random toy data, if I picked k=4
I would retain 93.3% of the variance.
Although this question is older than 2 years i want to provide an update on this. I wanted to do the same and it looks like sklearn now provides this feature out of the box.
As stated in the docs
if 0 < n_components < 1 and svd_solver == ‘full’, select the number of components such that the amount of variance that needs to be explained is greater than the percentage specified by n_components
So the code required is now
my_model = PCA(n_components=0.99, svd_solver='full') my_model.fit_transform(my_matrix)
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