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PCA - Q6 2018

Hi,

"In PCA, the first principal direction is the eigenvector of the data matrix with the largest eigenvalue" is stated false.
Could you please explain why ?

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It's of the matrix X_T*X not the data matrix X.

Because it's the eigenvector of matrix X^T * X.
Sometimes there are traps in the wording of the answers, we have to be careful ;)

But they have the same matrix U and V so why isn't it equivalent ?

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