Three-dimensional projection pursuit
Three-DimensionalProjectionPursuit
ByGUYNASON
DepartmentofMathematics,UniversityofBristol,UniversityWalk,Bristol,BS81TW,UKEmail:G.P.Nason@bristol.ac.uk
SUMMARY
Thedevelopmentandusageofanapproachtothree-dimensionalprojectionpursuitisdiscussed.Thewell-establishedJonesandSibsonmomentsindexischosenasacomputationallyefficientprojectionindextoextendto3D.The3Dindexwasinitiallydevelopedtofindinterestinglinearcombinationsofspectralbandsinamultispectralimage.Computeralgebraicmethodsareextensivelyemployedtohandlethecomplexformulaethatconstitutetheindexandareexplainedindetail.Adiscussionofimportantpracticalissuessuchasinterpretingprojectionsolutions,dealingwithoutliersandoptimizationtechniquescompletesthedescriptionoftheindex.Anartificialtetrahedraldatasetisusedtodemonstratehow3Dprojectionpursuitcanproducebetterclustersthanthoseobtainedbyprincipalcomponentsanalysis.Themainexampleshowshow3Dprojectionpursuitcansuccessfullycombinebandstodiscoveralternativeclusterstothoseproducedby,say,principalcomponents.
Keywords:projectionpursuit;multispectralimages;clustering;computeralgebra;varimaxrotation
1Introduction
Thisarticlediscussesvariousaspectsofprojectionpursuitintothreedimensions.Theaimofprojectionpursuitistofindinterestinglinearcombinationsofvariablesinamultivariatedataset.
Theprecisedefinitionof“interesting”isgivenlater
butclustersandotherformsofnon-linearstructureareinteresting.One-andtwo-dimensionalprojectionpursuithavebeendealtwithextensivelyintheliteratureandsomeexcellentsoftwareimplementationsareavailable.Thebenefitofprojectionintothree-dimensionsis