[BioC] PCA scree plot question

Paul Geeleher paulgeeleher at gmail.com
Tue Jun 16 16:05:06 CEST 2009


Can anyone tell me what the units of the numbers on the Y-axis of the
PCA plot are? I think its the number of genes involved in that
particular component but maybe someone can tell me for sure? See here
for an example of what I'm talking about:

http://frink.nuigalway.ie/~pat/PCAScreePlotNorm.pdf

Thanks alot,

-Paul.



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