Correspondence analysis: An alternative to principal components

1 June 1982

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in World Archaeology

Vol. 14 (1) , 41-60
https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1982.9979848

Abstract

Correspondence analysis is put forward as a statistical tool of the data reduction type, useful for abundance data. The method is applied to three research examples from the archaeology of northern Norway. It is pointed out that the method can be used as a device for automatic seriation.

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