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Contaminants in Tissue of <strong>Fish</strong> and Crabs Collected in the <strong>Gladstone</strong> AreaOverall (multivariate patterns)Table 3.3 lists the correlation coefficients, r, which show the direction and relative strength of therelationships.Table 3.3. Correlation matrix for the metals. Significant (P < 0.05) correlations have an absolutevalue > 0.294, and are indicated in bold.Aluminium 1.000Iron 0.639 1.000Copper 0.004 0.201 1.000Zinc 0.610 0.724 0.413 1.000Arsenic 0.375 0.634 0.307 0.656 1.000Selenium 0.346 0.569 0.791 0.659 0.670 1.000Cadmium 0.668 0.889 0.228 0.840 0.641 0.587 1.000Mercury 0.796 0.725 0.074 0.571 0.305 0.330 0.730Silver -0.058 -0.015 0.890 0.176 0.075 0.701 0.040Aluminium Iron Copper Zinc Arsenic Selenium CadmiumMercury 1.000Silver -0.028 1.000Mercury SilverThe relatively high degree of correlations amongst these nine metals means that the first twoprincipal components capture 80% of the total variation. This overall spatial representation is shownin Figure 3.1.Page 47

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