Abstract: A feature amount selection device includes a feature amount data acquisition unit that acquires feature amount data including a set of values of a plurality of feature amounts for a sample, for each of a plurality of the samples, a principal component analysis unit that performs, on the feature amount data, principal component analysis in a sample space that is a collection of the plurality of feature amounts of a set of values for each of the plurality of the samples of the feature amounts, and a feature amount selection unit that selects a feature amount from among the plurality of the feature amounts based on a result of the principal component analysis performed by the principal component analysis unit.