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From: Greg Heath <heath@alumni.brown.edu>
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Subject: Re: classification
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:06:09 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 12, 9:37=A0am, "Ahmed " <mogwari2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a dataset. i like to classify this data into two
> classes (class A, class B).
> i devide the data into three parts: training, valdiating,
> testing.
> i construct trainging model and the testing algorithm i
> don't have problem here. for valdition i use (PCA And SVM).
> can any one give me an example how to train PCA and use it
> for classification.
> i know how to use (PCA/SVM) for dimension reduction.
>
> can any one give me another idea

In general,  PCA is not recommended for
classification. Search Google Groups using

greg-heath thin disks

Hope this helps.

Greg