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extremely powerful since it grants the users the ability to construct graphics precisely<br />

tailored to their needs rather than using a set of pre-defined plots. The majority of<br />

graphs presented in this PhD are solely based on the ggplot2 package; the<br />

functionality of the package has been customised in order to highlight the results and<br />

the outcome along every step of the multivariate analysis pipeline. The generated<br />

graphs cover a wide range of different plots, from simple scatterplots to histograms<br />

and barplots with complex layouts, among others.<br />

The ggplot2 package was also applied as a means of highlighting the density of points<br />

in a two-dimensional scatterplot. A similar functionality is also provided for the basic<br />

plot() function by the KernSmooth package (Wand et al., 2011). In this instance, the<br />

scatter plots are enhanced with smoothed colour density representation based on the<br />

algorithm by Wand and Jones (Wand et al., 1995).<br />

Finally, the ellipse package was utilised to generate two-dimensional scatterplots with<br />

95% confidence ellipses for each distinct input class. The methods were used to<br />

provide PC scores plots that convey more information than the simple scatter plots<br />

normally used.<br />

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