Results and discussion Principal components and multiple regression analyses

Principal components and multiple regression analyses The results of the PCA of the logged artefact frequencies for the analysis of all artefact types are shown in Table 8.2, where it is apparent that the first two axes account for 40% of the variation in the data. Figure 8.2 shows the scattergram of the collection sites against the first two axes of the PCA, with the village numbers

Table 8.2 Results of PCA of all non-missing variables based on logged quantitative data (ie, material culture item frequencies).