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What is the main purpose of dimensionality reduction?
What is the main purpose of dimensionality reduction?
- To avoid the curse of dimensionality (correct)
- To increase the number of irrelevant features
- To complicate data mining
- To visualize data in higher dimensions
What does Principal Component Analysis (PCA) do?
What does Principal Component Analysis (PCA) do?
- Adds noise to the data
- Increases the dimensionality of data
- Transforms high-dimensional data into lower dimensions while retaining information (correct)
- Has no impact on data dimensionality
What does PCA aim to capture in data?
What does PCA aim to capture in data?
- Irrelevant features
- The largest amount of variation (correct)
- The smallest amount of variation
- Noise
What happens to the original data in PCA?
What happens to the original data in PCA?
What does dimensionality reduction allow in data mining?
What does dimensionality reduction allow in data mining?