Number of PCs for the state.x77 dataset
The state.x77 data is a matrix with 50 rows and 8 columns that includes the variables: Population, Income, Illiteracy, Life, Exp Murder, HS Grad, Frost, and Area for each of the 50 states in the United States. You can use the console to explore the data.
If you perform PCA on the full dataset, how many PCs will you get?
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Multivariate Probability Distributions in R
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