Sparse Projection Pursuit Analysis: An Alternative for Exploring Multivariate Chemical Data

Autor: Stephen Driscoll, Yannick S MacMillan, Peter D. Wentzell
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Analytical Chemistry. 92:1755-1762
ISSN: 1520-6882
0003-2700
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b03166
Popis: Sparse projection pursuit analysis (SPPA), a new approach for the unsupervised exploration of high-dimensional chemical data, is proposed as an alternative to traditional exploratory methods such as principal components analysis (PCA) and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA). Where traditional methods use variance and distance metrics for data compression and visualization, the proposed method incorporates the fourth statistical moment (kurtosis) to access interesting subspaces that can clarify relationships within complex data sets. The quasi-power algorithm used for projection pursuit is coupled with a genetic algorithm for variable selection to efficiently generate sparse projection vectors that improve the chemical interpretability of the results while at the same time mitigating the problem of overmodeling. Several multivariate chemical data sets are employed to demonstrate that SPPA can reveal meaningful clusters in the data where other unsupervised methods cannot.
Databáze: OpenAIRE