TABLE 5.
Results of the principal component analysis of the filaria-specific antibody data
| Component | Importance of derived principal components
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Loadings to componentsa
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD | Proportion of variance | Cumulative proportion | Log IgG1 | Log IgG2 | Log IgG3 | Log IgG4 | Log IgE | |
| 1 | 0.198 | 0.416 | 0.416 | 0.355 | 0.364 | −0.482 | 0.710 | |
| 2 | 0.174 | 0.321 | 0.737 | 0.352 | 0.301 | 0.843 | 0.229 | 0.150 |
| 3 | 0.110 | 0.128 | 0.865 | 0.663 | 0.274 | −0.172 | −0.640 | 0.154 |
| 4 | 0.088 | 0.081 | 0.946 | |||||
| 5 | 0.072 | 0.054 | 1.000 | |||||
a
Bold type indicates the response variables contributing the most to each individual principal component (see text).