PCA direction and explained variance
Problem
A centered two-dimensional dataset has covariance . Give the first principal direction, the fraction of variance it explains, and the reconstruction-error variance after projection to one dimension.
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The first direction is , it explains
of the variance, and the discarded, or reconstruction-error, variance is .
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