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mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">principal component analysis</topic></authority><related type="narrower"><topic>multidimensional scaling</topic></related><related type="broader"><topic>multivariate analysis</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>PCA</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>analysis, principal component</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>principal components analysis</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>principal-component analysis</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ Refers to a statistical technique, a form of multivariate analysis, used by archaeologists and conservation scientists in conjunction with multispectral analysis to organize compositional data among a set of objects, such as the differential distribution and concentrations of a metallic element in ceramics. ]]></note></mads>