TMtxPCA Class

Performs Principle Component Analysis (PCA).

Principal Components Analysis - PCA - is a data analysis tool that is usually used to reduce the dimensionality (number of variables) of a large number of interrelated variables, while retaining as much of the information (variation) as possible. PCA calculates an uncorrelated set of variables (factors or PCs). These factors are ordered so that the first few retain most of the variation present in all of the original variables.

The PCA procedure is reduced to an eigenvalue-eigenvector problem. PCA routines perform a PCA on either a correlation or a covariance matrix. Data matrix can be either "raw" data or pre-calculated correlation/covariance matrix.

How to use TMtxPCA component?

• Drop a TMtxPCA component on the form.
• By setting the TMtxPCA::PCAMode property define whether PCA will use correlation or covariance matrix to calculate PCA.
• Define the actual TMtxPCA::Data (by changing Data matrix values).
• Call the TMtxPCA::Recalc method to calculate PCA results.

Results:

• TMtxPCA::EigValues - Data eigenvalues
• TMtxPCA::PC - Data eigenvectors
• TMtxPCA::TotalVarPct - the percentage of the total variation in the variables (columns)
• TMtxPCA::ZScores - Z-Scores (eigenvectors in PC space).