# Code from Chapter 10 of Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective # by Stephen Marsland (http://seat.massey.ac.nz/personal/s.r.marsland/MLBook.html) # You are free to use, change, or redistribute the code in any way you wish for # non-commercial purposes, but please maintain the name of the original author. # This code comes with no warranty of any kind. # Stephen Marsland, 2008 # An algorithm to compute PCA. Not as fast as the NumPy implementation from pylab import * from numpy import * def pca(data,nRedDim=0,normalise=1): # Centre data m = mean(data,axis=0) data -= m # Covariance matrix C = cov(transpose(data)) # Compute eigenvalues and sort into descending order evals,evecs = linalg.eig(C) indices = argsort(evals) indices = indices[::-1] evecs = evecs[:,indices] evals = evals[indices] if nRedDim>0: evecs = evecs[:,:nRedDim] if normalise: for i in range(shape(evecs)[1]): evecs[:,i] / linalg.norm(evecs[:,i]) * sqrt(evals[i]) # Produce the new data matrix x = dot(transpose(evecs),transpose(data)) # Compute the original data again y=transpose(dot(evecs,x))+m return x,y,evals,evecs