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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 11.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychobiol. 2010 Dec;52(8):10.1002/dev.20475. doi: 10.1002/dev.20475

TABLE III.

Acoustic variable loadings for PCA components of tonal screams.

COMPONENTS
(Cum. VAF = 84.21%)

ACOUSTIC
VARIABLES
1 = Freq. Range
Eigenvalue = 5.16
VAF = 28.66%
2 = Fundamental Freq.
Eigenvalue = 3.57
VAF = 19.85%
3 = Dur. & Modularity
Eigenvalue = 2.23
VAF = 12.36%
4 = Start Slope
Eigenvalue = 1.84
VAF = 10.21%
5 = Peak Location
Eigenvalue = 1.31
VAF = 7.26%
6 = Final Slope
Eigenvalue = 1.06
VAF = 5.87%
Frequency Range 0.88 0.21 0.30 0.20 −0.06 −0.04
Maximum / Mean 0.87 −0.13 0.19 −0.25 0.02 0.07
Maximum Frequency 0.69 0.64 0.25 −0.03 −0.07 −0.05
Mean Frequency 0.12 0.94 0.07 0.14 −0.11 −0.10
Peak Amplitude Freq. 0.04 0.85 0.11 0.30 −0.11 −0.15
End Frequency −0.10 0.82 0.07 −0.11 0.29 0.22
Minimum Frequency −0.33 0.79 −0.09 −0.41 −0.02 −0.03
Start Frequency 0.30 0.56 −0.10 −0.53 −0.38 0.02
Duration 0.02 0.01 0.92 0.01 −0.02 0.01
Jitter Factor 0.58 0.04 0.75 0.07 0.12 0.03
Coefficient Modularity 0.53 0.36 0.67 0.16 0.03 0.02
Start Slope −0.16 0.16 0.03 0.84 0.19 0.07
Mean / Minimum 0.46 −0.10 0.08 0.71 −0.03 0.00
Location of Min. Freq. −0.07 0.00 −0.02 −0.05 0.80 0.17
Location of Max. Freq. −0.13 −0.03 0.00 0.12 0.70 0.12
Mid Slope −0.07 0.05 0.10 −0.26 0.26 0.84
Final Slope −0.16 −0.03 0.23 −0.32 0.39 0.72

Abbreviations: VAF= variance accounted for. Significant loadings (>0.55) are printed in bold type.