Related Experiment Videos
Robust fuzzy principal component analysis (FPCA). A comparative study concerning interaction of carbon-hydrogen bonds
Thomas R Cundari1, Costel Sârbu, Horia F Pop
1Department of Chemistry, Computational Research on Materials Institute (CROMIUM), The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee 38152-6060, USA. tomc@unt.edu
Abstract:
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a favorite tool in chemometrics for data compression and information extraction. PCA finds linear combinations of the original measurement variables that describe the significant variations in the data. However, it is well-known that PCA, as with any other multivariate statistical method, is sensitive to outliers, missing data, and poor linear correlation between variables due to poorly distributed variables. As a result data transformations have a large impact upon PCA. In this regard one of the most powerful approaches to improve PCA appears to be the fuzzification of the matrix data, thus diminishing the influence of outliers. In this paper we discuss a robust fuzzy PCA algorithm (FPCA). The new algorithm is illustrated on a data set concerning interaction of carbon-hydrogen bonds with transition metal-oxo bonds in molybdenum complexes. Considering, for example, a two component model, FPCA accounts for 97.20% of the total variance and PCA accounts only for 69.75%.