Python scikit learn pca.explained_variance_ratio_ cutoff

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 … Read more

Principal components analysis using pandas dataframe

Most sklearn objects work with pandas dataframes just fine, would something like this work for you? import pandas as pd import numpy as np from sklearn.decomposition import PCA df = pd.DataFrame(data=np.random.normal(0, 1, (20, 10))) pca = PCA(n_components=5) pca.fit(df) You can access the components themselves with pca.components_

Feature/Variable importance after a PCA analysis

First of all, I assume that you call features the variables and not the samples/observations. In this case, you could do something like the following by creating a biplot function that shows everything in one plot. In this example, I am using the iris data. Before the example, please note that the basic idea when … Read more

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in Python

I posted my answer even though another answer has already been accepted; the accepted answer relies on a deprecated function; additionally, this deprecated function is based on Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), which (although perfectly valid) is the much more memory- and processor-intensive of the two general techniques for calculating PCA. This is particularly relevant here … Read more

Recovering features names of explained_variance_ratio_ in PCA with sklearn

This information is included in the pca attribute: components_. As described in the documentation, pca.components_ outputs an array of [n_components, n_features], so to get how components are linearly related with the different features you have to: Note: each coefficient represents the correlation between a particular pair of component and feature import pandas as pd import … Read more

Principal component analysis in Python

Months later, here’s a small class PCA, and a picture: #!/usr/bin/env python “”” a small class for Principal Component Analysis Usage: p = PCA( A, fraction=0.90 ) In: A: an array of e.g. 1000 observations x 20 variables, 1000 rows x 20 columns fraction: use principal components that account for e.g. 90 % of the … Read more