Iconography of correlations

In exploratory data analysis, the iconography of correlations[1] is a method which consists in replacing a
correlation matrix by a diagram where the “remarkable” correlations are represented by a solid line (positive
correlation), or a dotted line (negative correlation).

This idea also appears in Gaussian graphic models used in particular in genome mapping. But the
iconography of correlations is more general in that it does not make an assumption about the Gaussian
distribution, or not, of the variables, and relies only on the geometric aspect of the Correlation coefficient.

The first idea of the iconography of

correlations dates back to 1975.
Applied first to marine geochemistry, it
was the subject of a thesis in 1981, and
of an article in Cahiers de l'Analyse
des Données in 1982.[2] After that, the
application of the method in many
branches of the aerospace industry [3] ·
[4] for about fifteen years, explains,
paradoxically, the relative
confidentiality in which it remained for
a long time, companies not generally
wishing to shout their solutions on the
roofs. Since the creation in 1997 of a
first company distributing software
based on the iconography of
correlations, and its teaching in some
universities, the bibliography has
grown widely, particularly in the
medical [5] and astrophysical sectors
(mass spectrometry[6] · [7]) · [8]
Representation of the proximity of food profiles in Europe.
See also
The Bayesian Network is a graph in which the cause and effect relationships are
"probabilized", unlike the Correlation Iconography, whose principle is "geometric".

References
1. "Une nouvelle approche dans le choix des régresseurs de la régression multiple en
présence d'interactions et de colinéarités. M. Lesty, La Revue de Modulad, n°22, pp. 41–77,
janvier 1999" (http://www-rocq.inria.fr/axis/modulad/archives/numero-22/Lesty-22/unenouvel
le.pdf) (PDF) (in French).
2. "La Synthèse Géométrique des Corrélations Multidimensionnelles. M. Lesty et P. Buat-
Ménard. Les Cahiers de l'Analyse des données, Vol. VII, n°3, 1982, pp. 355–370" (http://ww
w.coryent.com/Lesty-CahierADVII-1982n3.pdf) (PDF) (in French).
 3. M. Lesty et M. Coindoz. (1988) Une méthode pour la F.M.S. des bases de connaissances de
système experts. Une application de CORICO. 6e Colloque International de Fiabilité et de
Maintenabilité. Textes des conférences, p. 252–257 – Organisé par le Centre National
d'Études Spatiales (C.N.E.S.), 3–7 octobre 1988, Strasbourg.
4. Analyse des Corrélations et Fabrication des Composites. C. Vallée et X. Le Méteil. La
Maîtrise du risque dans la Construction Aéronautique. Phoebus 19 (tome 2) – Quatrième
trimestre 2001
5. Geometric Method and Generalized Linear Models: Two opposite Multiparametric
Approaches Illustrated on a Sample of Pituitary Adenomas. Lesty C., Pleau-Varet J. & Kujas
M. Journal of Applied Statistics Vol. 31(2): p. 191–213. February 2004.
6. Multi-correlation analyses of TOF-SIMS spectra for mineralogical studies." C. Engrand, J.
Lespagnol, P.Martin, L. Thirkell, R. Thomas. Applied Surface Science 231–232 (2004) 883–
887
7. Chemometric evaluation of time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry data of minerals
in the frame of future in situ analyses of cometary material by COSIMA onboard ROSETTA."
Engrand C;, Kissel J., Krueger F.R., Martin P., Silén J., Thirkel L.l, Thomas R., Varmuza K.
(2006). (Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry Vol. 20, Issue 8 p. 1361–1368)
Published Online: 23 march 2006 (www.interscience.wiley.com).
8. Paillat, Louise (December 2020). "Growing Medium Type Affects Organic Fertilizer
Mineralization and CNPS Microbial Enzyme Activities. Louise Paillat, Patrice Cannavo,
Fabrice Barraud, Lydie Huché-Thélier and René Guénon, Agronomy 2020, 10, 1955" (http
s://doi.org/10.3390%2Fagronomy10121955). Agronomy. 10 (12): 1955.
doi:10.3390/agronomy10121955 (https://doi.org/10.3390%2Fagronomy10121955).

External links
La représentation multidimensionnelle : une autre façon de présenter l’iconographie des
corrélations (http://www.coryent.com/representation-multidimensionnelle.html)

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