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The geochemistry of floodplain sediments is fundamental to monitor environmental changes and to quantify their contribution to natural and anthropic processes. A floodplain sediment composition is a vector of positive elements which sum to a fixed constant. The analysis of high-dimensional compositions requires methods that produce results involving only a small portion of the original variables. On the other hand, the analysis must take into account the additional constraints specific to compositions. With the purpose of studying these problems, a new procedure for sparse PCA is proposed on European floodplain sediment samples.
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Gallo, M., Trendafilov, N.T. & Buccianti, A. Sparse PCA and investigation of multi-elements compositional repositories: theory and applications. Environ Ecol Stat 23, 421–434 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10651-016-0346-y
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