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  2. Principal component analysis - Wikipedia

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    Principal component analysis (PCA) is a linear dimensionality reduction technique with applications in exploratory data analysis, visualization and data preprocessing.. The data is linearly transformed onto a new coordinate system such that the directions (principal components) capturing the largest variation in the data can be easily identified.

  3. Principal–agent problem - Wikipedia

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    The principal–agent problem typically arises where the two parties have different interests and asymmetric information (the agent having more information), such that the principal cannot directly ensure that the agent is always acting in the principal's best interest, particularly when activities that are useful to the principal are costly to ...

  4. Lean on Me (film) - Wikipedia

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    Lean on Me is a 1989 American biographical drama film directed by John G. Avildsen, written by Michael Schiffer, and starring Morgan Freeman.It is based on the story of Joe Louis Clark, a real life inner city high school principal in Paterson, New Jersey, whose school is in danger of being placed into receivership of the New Jersey state government unless students improve their test scores on ...

  5. Principal Group - Wikipedia

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    The Principal Group was a group of interrelated Canadian financial companies that collapsed in 1987, resulting in losses to an estimated 67,000 people. Losses were in recovered in part through provincial governments paying compensation, based on findings as to deficiencies in regulatory oversight.

  6. Joe Louis Clark - Wikipedia

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    Joe Louis Clark (May 8, 1938 – December 29, 2020) was the principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey. He is also the subject of the 1989 film Lean on Me, starring Morgan Freeman. Clark gained public attention in the 1980s for his unconventional and controversial disciplinary measures as the principal of Eastside High. [1]

  7. Pareto principle - Wikipedia

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    The Pareto principle may apply to fundraising, i.e. 20% of the donors contributing towards 80% of the total. The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity [1] [2]) states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the "vital few").

  8. The Guest (2014 American film) - Wikipedia

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    Principal photography took place in various locations including Moriarty, Edgewood and Estancia, and continued until the end of August 2013. [13] Monroe described the filming process as "light-hearted [...] There's a lot of comedy in The Guest, so it was a bit more fun". [14]

  9. The Pacifier - Wikipedia

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    Lauren Graham as Principal Claire Fletcher, former Navy petty officer and the principal of the Plummer children's school. Brittany Snow as Zoe Plummer, the eldest of the children; she is sixteen years old and a typical teenage cheerleader girl. Max Thieriot as Seth Plummer, the second oldest child. He is fourteen years old and is a sullen ...