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. 2011 Jun 17;6(6):e20844. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020844

Table 2. Independent chemical factors (in columns) obtained after the Factor Analysis of chemical data.

Peaks Chemical Factors
FC1 FC2 FC3 FC4 FC5 FC6
18 0.965 - - - - -
19 0.965 - - - - -
17 0.964 - - - - -
23 0.881 - - - - -
20 0.729 - - - - -
21 0.659 - - - -0.691 -
14 0.653 - - - - -
(5) - - - - - 0.746
(6) - 0.916 - - - -
25 - 0.913 - - - -
24 - 0.877 - - - -
(4) - 0.719 - - - -
(1) - - -0.609 - - -
5 - - -0.852 - - -
4 - - -0.837 - - -
9 - - -0.808 - - -
7 - - -0.774 - - -
2 - - - -0.891 - -
3 - - - -0.739 - -
8 - - - -0.638 - -
6 - - - - -0.917 -
(3) - - - - - 0.922
12 - - - - - 0.913
% of total variance explained 22.37 17.97 14.12 10.43 7.70 11.55

For a better interpretation, only peaks with absolute value greater than 0.600 are shown. Numbers in bracket are compounds from Figures 2 and 3.