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I'm completely new to the concept of PCA. From what I comprehend, PCA uses sum of squares method. With that said, I Came across a one-hot-encoded data (which means im dealing with categorical data).Can PCA be applied here? If yes, would it yield meaningless results? I'd be grateful for what ever response you provide.Thanks

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PCA can be used on One applied on one-Hot_Encoded data and it will give you output with no errors. But it has been designed for continuous variables. here is a detailed explanation of your Question PCA For categorical features

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