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When faced with situations involving high-dimensional data, it is natural to consider the possibility of projecting those data onto a lower-dimensional subspace without losing important information regarding some characteristic of the original variables. One way of accomplishing this reduction of dimensionality is through variable selection, also called feature selection (see Section 5.7). Another way is by creating a reduced set of linear or nonlinear transformations of the input variables. The creation of such composite variables (or features) by projection methods is often referred to as feature extraction. Usually, we wish to find those low-dimensional projections of the input data that enjoy some sort of optimality properties.
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Izenman, A.J. (2013). Linear Dimensionality Reduction. In: Modern Multivariate Statistical Techniques. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78189-1_7
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