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Principal Component Analysis

PCA: A dimensionality reduction method that finds directions of maximum variance in data. PCA plots reveal sample clustering, outliers, and batch effects in omics data.

Example in a sentence

PCA showed that the first two components separated by batch.

Key facts

  • Unsupervised; variance-based.
  • QC and visualization; batch often in early PCs.

Category: Analysis Methods

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