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Using the princomp function

In this exercise you will use the princomp() function to calculate the principal components (PCs) of a dataset. We will use the pca.state object created in this exercise throughout the rest of this chapter.

This exercise is part of the course

Multivariate Probability Distributions in R

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Exercise instructions

  • Calculate the principal components, and the scores of the PCs, of the state.x77 dataset based on the correlation matrix and store it as pca.state.
  • Provide a plot and print the summary of the principal component object.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Calculate PCs
pca.state <- princomp(___, cor = ___, scores = ___) 

# Plot the PCA object  
plot(___) 

# Print the summary of the PCs
summary(___) 
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