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Biplot of Anderson's iris data set
Spectramap biplot of Anderson's iris data set
Discriminant Analysis Biplot of Fisher's Iris Data (Greenacre, 2010)

Biplots are a type of exploratory graph used in statistics, a generalization of the simple two-variable scatterplot. A biplot allows information on both samples and variables of a data matrix to be displayed graphically. Samples are displayed as points while variables are displayed either as vectors, linear axes or nonlinear trajectories. In the case of categorical variables, category level points may be used to represent the levels of a categorical variable. A generalised biplot displays information on both continuous and categorical variables.

The biplot was introduced by Gabriel (1971). Gower and Hand (1996) wrote a monograph on biplots. Yan and Kang (2003) described various methods which can be used in order to visualize and interpret a biplot. The book by Greenacre (2010) is a practical user-oriented guide to biplots, along with scripts in the open-source R programming language, to generate biplots associated with principal component analysis (PCA), multidimensional scaling (MDS), log-ratio analysis (LRA) - also known as spectral mapping[1] - discriminant analysis (DA) and various forms of correspondence analysis: simple correspondence analysis (CA), multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA). The book by Gower, Lubbe and le Roux (2011) aims to popularize biplots as a useful and reliable method for the visualization of multivariate data when researchers want to consider, for example, principal component analysis (PCA), canonical variates analysis (CVA) or various types of correspondence analysis.


References

  1. ^ Lewi P.J. (2005). "Spectral mapping, a personal and historical account of an adventure in multivariate data analysis". Chemometr. Intell. Lab. Syst., 77, 215-223, 2005

Sources

  • Gabriel, K.R. (1971). "The biplot graphic display of matrices with application to principal component analysis". Biometrika. 58 (3): 453–467. doi:10.1093/biomet/58.3.453.
  • Gower, J.C., Lubbe, S. and le Roux, N. (due January 2011). Understanding Biplots. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-01255-0
  • Gower, J.C. and Hand, D.J (1996). Biplots. Chapman & Hall, London, UK. ISBN 0412716305
  • Greenacre, M. (2010). Biplots in Practice. BBVA Foundation, Madrid, Spain. Available for free download on publication at http://www.fbbva.es (expected September 2010) ISBN 978-84-923846-8-6
  • Yan, W. and Kang, M.S. (2003). GGE Biplot Analysis. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. ISBN 0849313384
  • Vicente-Villardón, J.L., Galindo-Villardón, M.P. and Blázquez-Zaballos, A. (2006). Logistic Biplots. In: Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods. Greenacre, M. and Blasius, J. (Eds) Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. Boca Raton. USA. ISBN 1584886285
  • Demey, J.R., Vicente-Villardón, J.L., Galindo-Villardón, M.P. and Zambrano, A.Y. (2008). Identifying molecular markers associated with classification of genotypes by External Logistic Biplots. Bioinformatics. 24(24):2832-2838
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