Research Article

A New Approach for Provenance Studies of Archaeological Finds: Inferences from Trace Elements in Carbonate Minerals of Alpine White Marbles by a Bench-to-Top μ-XRF Spectrometer

Table 4

Eigenvalues (in descending order) and extracted eigenvectors (PC1 and PC2 coefficients referring to the first 2 eigenvalues are reported in bold) belonging to the correlation matrix: PCA performed on 4 variables (CaO, Fe, Sr, and Mn).
(a)

Correlation Matrix
SrFeMnCaO

Sr1.000−0.418−0.236−0.098
Fe−0.4181.0000.2240.335
Mn−0.2360.2241.0000.384
CaO−0.0980.3350.3841.000

(b)

Eigenvalue
EigenvalueVariance%Cumulative

11.85346.33%46.33%
20.97424.36%70.69%
30.70917.72%88.42%
40.46311.58%100.00%

(c)

Eigenvector
Coef.SrFeMnCaO

PC1−0.4600.5490.4930.491
PC20.647−0.3200.4080.558