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In PCA, the most outlying data points determine the direction of the PCs – these are the ones contributing most to the variance. This often results in score plots showing a large group of points close to the centre. As a result, any local structure is hard to recognize, even when zooming in: such points are not important in the determination of the PCs. One approach is to select the rows of the data matrix corresponding to these points, and to perform a separate PCA on them. Apart from the obvious dificulties in deciding which points to leave out and which to include, this leads to a cumbersome and hard to interpret two-step approach. It would be better if a projection can be found that does show structure, even within very similar groups of points.
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Wehrens, R. (2011). Self-Organizing Maps. In: Chemometrics with R. Use R. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17841-2_5
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