Coursera: Machine Learning (Week 8) Quiz - Principal Component Analysis | Andrew NG

 

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1. Consider the following 2D dataset:
   
   Which of the following figures correspond to possible values that PCA may return for  (the first eigen vector / first principal component)? Check all that apply (you may have to check more than one figure).
   
   
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2. Which of the following is a reasonable way to select the number of principal components k?
   (Recall that n is the dimensionality of the input data and m is the number of input examples.)
   
   
   •  Choose k to be the smallest value so that at least 99% of the variance is retained.
   
   
   •  Choose k to be the smallest value so that at least 1% of the variance is retained.
   
   
   •  Choose k to be 99% of n (i.e., k = 0.99 ∗ n, rounded to the nearest integer).
   
   
   •  Choose the value of that minimizes the approximation error 
   
   
   •  Choose k to be the largest value so that at least 99% of the variance is retained
   
   
   •  Use the elbow method.
   
   
   •  Choose k to be 99% of m (i.e., k = 0.99 ∗ m, rounded to the nearest integer).
   
   

3. Suppose someone tells you that they ran PCA in such a way that “95% of the variance was retained.” What is an equivalent statement to this?
   
   
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4. Which of the following statements are true? Check all that apply.
   
   
   •  Given only  and , there is no way to reconstruct any reasonable approximation to .
   
   
   •  Even if all the input features are on very similar scales, we should still perform mean normalization (so that each feature has zero mean) before running PCA.

     
     

   •  Given input data , it makes sense to run PCA only with values of k that satisfy . (In particular, running it with  is possible but not helpful, and  does not make sense.)
   •  PCA is susceptible to local optima; trying multiple random initializations may help.
   
   
   •  PCA can be used only to reduce the dimensionality of data by 1 (such as 3D to 2D, or 2D to 1D).
   
   
   •  Given an input , PCA compresses it to a lower-dimensional vector .
   
   
   •  If the input features are on very different scales, it is a good idea to perform feature scaling before applying PCA.

     
     

   •  Feature scaling is not useful for PCA, since the eigenvector calculation (such as using Octave’s svd(Sigma) routine) takes care of this automatically.
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   • 5.Which of the following are recommended applications of PCA? Select all that apply.
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     •  To get more features to feed into a learning algorithm.
     
     
     •  Data compression: Reduce the dimension of your data, so that it takes up less memory / disk space.

        Preventing overfitting: Reduce the number of features (in a supervised learning problem), so that there are fewer parameters to learn.

     
     
     •  Data visualization: Reduce data to 2D (or 3D) so that it can be plotted.

       
       

     •  Data compression: Reduce the dimension of your input data , which will be used in supervised learning algorithm (i.e., use PCA so that your supervised learning algorithm runs faster ).
     •  As a replacement for (or alternative to) linear regression: For most learning applications, PCA and linear regression give sustantially similar results.
     
     
     •  Data visualization: To take 2D data, and find a different way of plotting it in 2D (using k=2)
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