Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Disciplines (hierarchy name)
4. disciplines (concept)
5. [science and related disciplines]
6. science (modern discipline)
7. mathematics
8. statistics
9. multivariate analysis

Narrower term/s

• multidimensional scaling

Anotations

Scope note:

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.