Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction

Download or read book Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction written by John A. Lee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes established and advanced methods for reducing the dimensionality of numerical databases. Each description starts from intuitive ideas, develops the necessary mathematical details, and ends by outlining the algorithmic implementation. The text provides a lucid summary of facts and concepts relating to well-known methods as well as recent developments in nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Methods are all described from a unifying point of view, which helps to highlight their respective strengths and shortcomings. The presentation will appeal to statisticians, computer scientists and data analysts, and other practitioners having a basic background in statistics or computational learning.