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Airline profit cycles analyzed with PCA, revealing fewer clusters

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A new paper explores the dimensionality and orthogonality of airline profit cycles using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Kernel PCA. The research replicates a previous clustering experiment, finding that a six-cluster taxonomy remains geometrically robust across different dimensional spaces. However, the study also reveals that the dataset structurally supports only three clusters, with collinearity in the raw data suppressing this signal. AI

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Airline profit cycles analyzed with PCA, revealing fewer clusters

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Andreas Schlapbach ·

    Orthogonality and Dimensionality in Airline Cluster Analysis using PCA and Kernel PCA

    arXiv:2606.08322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To characterize the US airline profit cycles from 1995 to 2020, the authors of Renold et al. (2023) combine k-means clustering, principal component analysis, and system dynamic modelling. We replicate their clustering experiment in …

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Andreas Schlapbach ·

    Orthogonality and Dimensionality in Airline Cluster Analysis using PCA and Kernel PCA

    To characterize the US airline profit cycles from 1995 to 2020, the authors of Renold et al. (2023) combine k-means clustering, principal component analysis, and system dynamic modelling. We replicate their clustering experiment in three spaces -- the original 7-dimensional raw-v…

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