Regional Education Development Research Based on Robust Principal Component Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 915-916 ◽  
pp. 1361-1366
Author(s):  
Xian Fen Xie ◽  
Bin Hui Wang

Education development is the product of endogenous socio-economic; studying on regional differences of education level plays an important role in social and economic development. This paper constructs regional education development index system based on two aspects of basic educational facilities and educational scale, applies robust principal component analysis method to explore education development level differences of China's 31 provinces, and with the traditional principal component analysis for comparison. Research shows that, results obtained by robust principal component analysis is more in line with China's actual situation; the overall level of education is not high and the difference between regions is large; China's basic education is positively correlated with regional economy, while inversely correlated with regional population.

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lihui Zhang ◽  
Riletu Ge ◽  
Jianxue Chai

China’s energy consumption issues are closely associated with global climate issues, and the scale of energy consumption, peak energy consumption, and consumption investment are all the focus of national attention. In order to forecast the amount of energy consumption of China accurately, this article selected GDP, population, industrial structure and energy consumption structure, energy intensity, total imports and exports, fixed asset investment, energy efficiency, urbanization, the level of consumption, and fixed investment in the energy industry as a preliminary set of factors; Secondly, we corrected the traditional principal component analysis (PCA) algorithm from the perspective of eliminating “bad points” and then judged a “bad spot” sample based on signal reconstruction ideas. Based on the above content, we put forward a robust principal component analysis (RPCA) algorithm and chose the first five principal components as main factors affecting energy consumption, including: GDP, population, industrial structure and energy consumption structure, urbanization; Then, we applied the Tabu search (TS) algorithm to the least square to support vector machine (LSSVM) optimized by the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to forecast China’s energy consumption. We collected data from 1996 to 2010 as a training set and from 2010 to 2016 as the test set. For easy comparison, the sample data was input into the LSSVM algorithm and the PSO-LSSVM algorithm at the same time. We used statistical indicators including goodness of fit determination coefficient (R2), the root means square error (RMSE), and the mean radial error (MRE) to compare the training results of the three forecasting models, which demonstrated that the proposed TS-PSO-LSSVM forecasting model had higher prediction accuracy, generalization ability, and higher training speed. Finally, the TS-PSO-LSSVM forecasting model was applied to forecast the energy consumption of China from 2017 to 2030. According to predictions, we found that China shows a gradual increase in energy consumption trends from 2017 to 2030 and will breakthrough 6000 million tons in 2030. However, the growth rate is gradually tightening and China’s energy consumption economy will transfer to a state of diminishing returns around 2026, which guides China to put more emphasis on the field of energy investment.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Scherl ◽  
Benjamin Strom ◽  
Jessica K. Shang ◽  
Owen Williams ◽  
Brian L. Polagye ◽  
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