Principal Coordinate Analysis

Principal Coordinate Analysis is part of:

  • ADA Advanced Data Analysis on Multiple tables software

  • System configuration

    • Windows:
      • Versions: 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Win 7
      • Excel: 97 and later
      • Processor: 32 or 64 bits
      • Hard disk: 150 Mb
    • Mac OS X:
      • OS: OS X
      • Excel: X, 2004 and 2011
      • Hard disk: 150Mb.

Benefits

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Principles of Principal Coordinate Analysis

Principal Coordinate Analysis (often referred to as PCoA) is aimed at graphically representing a resemblance matrix between p elements (individuals, variables, objects, among others).

The algorithm can be divided into three steps:

  1. Computation of a distance matrix for the p elements
  2. Centering of the matrix by rows and columns
  3. Eigen-decomposition of the centered distance matrix

The rescaled eigenvectors correspond to the principal coordinates that can be used to display the p objects in a space with 1, 2, p-1 dimensions.

As with PCA (Principal Component Analysis) eigenvalues can be interpreted in terms of percentage of total variability that is being represented in a reduced space.

Results of Principal Coordinate Analysis in XLSTAT

Principal Coordinate Analysis and Principal Component Analysis

PCA and Principal Coordinate Analysis are quite similar in that the PCA can also represent observations in a space with less dimensions, the later being optimal in terms of variability carried. A Principal Coordinate Analysis applied to matrix of Euclidean distances between observations (calculated after standardization of the columns using the unbiased standard deviation) leads to the same results as a PCA based on the correlation matrix. The eigenvalues obtained with the Principal Coordinate Analysis are equal to (p-1) times those obtained with the PCA.

Principal Coordinate Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling

Principal Coordinate Analysis and MDS (Multidimensional Scaling) share the same goal of representing objects for which we have a proximity matrix.

MDS has two drawbacks when compared with Principal Coordinate Analysis:

MDS has two advantages compared with Principal Coordinate Analysis:

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