On Lines and Planes of Closest Fit to Systems of Points in Space

Pearson, K. (1901). On Lines and Planes of Closest Fit to Systems of Points in Space. Philosophical Magazine, 559-572.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1901

DOI

10.1080/14786440109462720

Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/14786440109462720

Cited from

mathematics, statistics_experimental_design

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Primes

• Dimension
  • Pearson's 1901 PCA

    This sourceLeast-squares orthogonal-regression origin of principal-components analysis; foundational for distinguishing recorded from effective dimension.

• Dimensionality Reduction
  • In genomics and transcriptomics, PCA is used for quality control (detecting batch effects, outlier samples) and for initial exploration of cell-type or disease-group structure

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