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. 2020 Aug 28;18:105. doi: 10.1186/s12915-020-00835-y

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Histogram of the percent of total variance each MCA dimension is able to explain. MCA recovers the total of eight dimensions to explain the total variance contained in the dataset. However, to be able to visually interpret the results, we must reduce the number of dimensions. An interpretable graphic representation of MCA results best operates in two dimensions. Therefore, we relied on the first two MCA dimensions for investigating variable relationships. Those two dimensions together explain 52.9% of the total variance (inertia) within the data while the 47.1% of the variance is lost