For those looking for a more succinct answer: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/134282/relationship-between-svd-and-pca-how-to-use-svd-to-perform-pca ht

For those looking for a more succinct answer: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/134282/relationship-between-svd-and-pca-how-to-use-svd-to-perform-pca https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/134282/relationshi... And here is another interesting connection between PCA and ridge regression: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/81395/relationship-between-ridge-regression-and-pca-regression https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/81395/relationship...