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This article presents a from-scratch C# implementation of the second technique: using SVD to compute eigenvalues and eigenvectors from the standardized source data. If you're not familiar with PCA, ...

The well-known error estimates for the numerical computation of eigenvalues of symmetric integral equations are extended to the computation of the eigenvectors. The ...

Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly stated that eigenvalues are the magnitudes of eigenvectors. In fact, eigenvalues are scalars that are multiplied with eigenvectors. This ...

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