Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Textile Data
topic
Principal component analysis reduces high-dimensional textile property datasets to lower-dimensional representations capturing maximum variance, cluster analysis groups similar fabric samples by multivariate property similarity, discriminant analysis classifies unknown specimens by fibre type or quality grade, and canonical correlation relates two multivariate property sets from the same textile specimens.
Role
Extracts structure from complex multi-property textile datasets where multiple correlated quality characteristics must be considered simultaneously, enabling fibre identification by spectral profile, quality grading from multiple physical properties, and identification of latent process factors driving correlated quality variation across multiple measured responses.