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Ten quick tips for effective dimensionality reduction

Fig 1

Scree plot.

For spectral methods, the eigenvalues can be used to decide how many dimensions are sufficient. The number of dimensions to keep can be selected based on an "elbow rule." In the example shown, you should keep the first five principal components.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006907.g001