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标题：On the predictive potential of kernel principal components
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作者：Ben Jones ; Andreas Artemiou ; Bing Li 等
期刊名称：Electronic Journal of Statistics
印刷版ISSN：1935-7524
出版年度：2020
卷号：14
期号：1
页码：1-23
DOI：10.1214/19-EJS1655
语种：English
出版社：Institute of Mathematical Statistics
摘要：We give a probabilistic analysis of a phenomenon in statistics which, until recently, has not received a convincing explanation. This phenomenon is that the leading principal components tend to possess more predictive power for a response variable than lower-ranking ones despite the procedure being unsupervised. Our result, in its most general form, shows that the phenomenon goes far beyond the context of linear regression and classical principal components — if an arbitrary distribution for the predictor $X$ and an arbitrary conditional distribution for $Y\vert X$ are chosen then any measureable function $g(Y)$, subject to a mild condition, tends to be more correlated with the higher-ranking kernel principal components than with the lower-ranking ones. The “arbitrariness” is formulated in terms of unitary invariance then the tendency is explicitly quantified by exploring how unitary invariance relates to the Cauchy distribution. The most general results, for technical reasons, are shown for the case where the kernel space is finite dimensional. The occurency of this tendency in real world databases is also investigated to show that our results are consistent with observation.
关键词：Cauchy distribution; dimension reduction; nonparametric regression; kernel principal components; unitary invariance