10085 IUPAC Gold Book - biplot 10.1351/goldbook.10085 10085 current 1 Combination plot of a scores plot as points and loadings plot as vectors for common factors. The plots are scaled to facilitate interpretation. Points in the scores plot (objects) that fall on a loadings vector are considered to be characterised by the variable associated with the vector. loadings https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10096 loadings plot https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10097 scores plot https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10113 PAC, 2016, 88, 407. 'Vocabulary of concepts and terms in chemometrics (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 418 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0605) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10085/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10085/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10085/plain Citation: 'biplot' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.10085 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-04-18T22:20:44+00:00