{"id":43479,"date":"2024-04-15T21:30:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T21:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/?p=43479"},"modified":"2024-04-15T21:30:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T21:30:03","slug":"the-most-popularly-used-dimensionality-reduction-algorithm-is-principal-component-analysis-pca-which-of-the-following-is-are-true-about-pca-1-pca-is-an-unsupervised-method-2-it-searches-for-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/the-most-popularly-used-dimensionality-reduction-algorithm-is-principal-component-analysis-pca-which-of-the-following-is-are-true-about-pca-1-pca-is-an-unsupervised-method-2-it-searches-for-the\/","title":{"rendered":"The most popularly used dimensionality reduction algorithm is Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Which of the following is\/are true about PCA? 1. PCA is an unsupervised method 2. It searches for the directions that data have the largest variance 3. 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