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Gonzalez-Caballero, J.L. & Gutierrez-Mas, J.M

Abstract

In this work we compare the outcomes obtained from three mnltivariate statistic methods: the Q-mode factor analysis, the technique of biplot repre- sentation and the correspondence analysis applied to the study of the recent sediments of the sea floor of the Cadiz bay. The results obtained with these methods have allowed discrimination between types of sediments through the establishment of different mineralogical associations defined as fades, as well as the elaborate models of sedimentary processes, aspects of great interest for knowledge of the behaviour of the coast marine environment. 1 Introduction The Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of a X,^ matrix, n objects and p variables, allows us to writ

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