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I did PCA on my data and projected the data on first two eigen vectors. After projection I see that the scatter plot of the data starts from [-1,-1]. My data is all positive. Is it correct for the data to be negative in the projected space.










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    I did PCA on my data and projected the data on first two eigen vectors. After projection I see that the scatter plot of the data starts from [-1,-1]. My data is all positive. Is it correct for the data to be negative in the projected space.










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      I did PCA on my data and projected the data on first two eigen vectors. After projection I see that the scatter plot of the data starts from [-1,-1]. My data is all positive. Is it correct for the data to be negative in the projected space.










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      I did PCA on my data and projected the data on first two eigen vectors. After projection I see that the scatter plot of the data starts from [-1,-1]. My data is all positive. Is it correct for the data to be negative in the projected space.







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          Yes, it is, there is no reason why a component cannot have negative values.



          Let's take this matrix:



          [[1, 1],[0.5, 1]]


          The eigenvectors have negative values:



          [[ 0.81649658, -0.81649658],
          [ 0.57735027, 0.57735027]]





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            Yes, it is, there is no reason why a component cannot have negative values.



            Let's take this matrix:



            [[1, 1],[0.5, 1]]


            The eigenvectors have negative values:



            [[ 0.81649658, -0.81649658],
            [ 0.57735027, 0.57735027]]





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              Yes, it is, there is no reason why a component cannot have negative values.



              Let's take this matrix:



              [[1, 1],[0.5, 1]]


              The eigenvectors have negative values:



              [[ 0.81649658, -0.81649658],
              [ 0.57735027, 0.57735027]]





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                Yes, it is, there is no reason why a component cannot have negative values.



                Let's take this matrix:



                [[1, 1],[0.5, 1]]


                The eigenvectors have negative values:



                [[ 0.81649658, -0.81649658],
                [ 0.57735027, 0.57735027]]





                share|improve this answer












                Yes, it is, there is no reason why a component cannot have negative values.



                Let's take this matrix:



                [[1, 1],[0.5, 1]]


                The eigenvectors have negative values:



                [[ 0.81649658, -0.81649658],
                [ 0.57735027, 0.57735027]]






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