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I've always understood PCA as SVD on a whitened matrix. Is this too simplistic of a view to take wrt implementation?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitening_transformation

I actually touch on the relation to whitening toward the bottom of the article. You can whiten your dataset from the left singular matrix U which is directly related to PCs. Thanks for reading!

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