Re: [GRASS-stats] Re: [GRASS-user] Testing i.pca ~ prcomp(), m.eigensystem ~ princomp()

2009-04-01 Thread Markus Metz
Edzer Pebesma wrote: Markus, a few notes: - if you do PCA on uncentered data, by computing the eigenvalues of the uncentered covariance matrix, this implies that bands with a larger mean will get more influence on the final PCAs. I have sofar not managed finding an argument why this would be

Re: [GRASS-stats] Re: [GRASS-user] Testing i.pca ~ prcomp(), m.eigensystem ~ princomp()

2009-04-01 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Markus: It seems that i.pca output is supposed to be identical to prcomp(center=FALSE, scale=FALSE) output in R, because a PCA is scale-sensitive and the eigenvalue as reported by i.pca is the variance of the raw, unstandardised data. The thing is that with the SPOT data all seems fine and