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Working on the World Happiness Report dataset, i have N countries with M features and a happiness score. This is the parameter I built 3 classes from: happy, medium, unhappy (numerical intervals of happiness score). I have run a 3 component PCA (only the first two components show relevant separation) and kmeans on the result (with 6 clusters, chosen in function of distorion). Plotting the two components with clustering predicted colouring gives very clear separation between classes, and I should now deduce what feature makes "happy" countries happy. My idea would be to implement some form of Bayes' theorem, but don't really know how since there is strong (>0.6) correlation between some features. How can I approach the problem?

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If they are highly correlated, probably you can not easily tell which feature leads to a happy country. My suggestion is to perform multicollinearity test before fitting any model to remove highly correlated features. After that, there a chance that you be able to get more insights about the pattern in your data.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thank you, I'll look into it. The correlation looks statistically bad but I believe there is some natural correlation that when removed, might mess up the reliability of the model (for example family and average income have an impact on one another in a real situation,). I've tried with random permutations of feature values to see how the model changed, and got some interesting result anyway. $\endgroup$ May 28, 2020 at 12:56

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