12. Survey Analysis: Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Topics and Notes
  1. Final capstone project guidelines HTML
  2. A brief intorduction to principal compoenent analysis (PCA) PDF HTML RMD
    • a. Geometric illustration of PCA.
    • b. Requirements and conditions for PCA
    • c. Rules for selecting PCA.
    • d. Relationship between PCs
  3. Case Study: PCA approach to Self-compassion and gratitude survey instruments HTML PDF RMD
    • a. Aggregating information from subscales of the instrument
    • b. Use of principal components (PCs)
    • c. Regression analysis with PCs.
Reading Assignments
writen submission due: Sunday, 11:30 PM
This assignment is the continuation of last week's assignment. Use the same subscale (or sub-instrument) of the experience/satisfaction survey.
  • PCA analyses
    • a. Use the same format in my case study on self-compassion and gratitude survey to report results of PCA.
  • Reformulate/elaborate on the project questions you developed last week.

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