Drawbacks of Principal component analysis

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2010-05-11

arxiv.org/abs/1005.1770v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

4pages, 4figures, fix typo and add details

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One of the main tasks for present and future dark energy surveys is to determine whether the dark energy is dynamical or not. To illustrate this from data, it is commonly used to parameterize the dark energy equation of state w as several piecewise constant wis using the principal component analysis (PCA) method over finite redshift bins. We show that there is only $j-1$ free parameters wis if we choose the redshift as j bins. Without this constrain, one obtains the inconsistent results from the data analysis. Furthermore, if w decreases with non-negligible ratio as z does, then PCA fails to reproduce the original behavior of w. Also, time varying w can be confused with the incorrect value of constant one when the decreasing (or increasing) ratio of w is small but not negligible.

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