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We introduce an informative probabilistic association matrix to measure a proportional local-to-global association of categories of one variable with another categorical variable. Towards a probability based proportional prediction, the…

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Principal component analysis (PCA) is commonly used in genetics to infer and visualize population structure and admixture between populations. PCA is often interpreted in a way similar to inferred admixture proportions, where it is assumed…

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In \cite{ref11} and \cite{ref3}, the authors proposed the Centers and the Vertices Methods to extend the well known principal components analysis method to a particular kind of symbolic objects characterized by multi--valued variables of…

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