In Slovenian retention-basin soils, switching from z-score standardisation to a centred log-ratio transformation before principal component analysis of portable X-ray fluorescence data substantially changed the variance structure, loading patterns and group-test outcomes, revealing a carbonate-phosphate versus silicate gradient only partly aligned with metal enrichment.
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