Table 2.4 Elemental Discriminating
Ability in Principal Component Analysis
Elements
Percentage of Total Variation
Sb, Sn, Cd
83.8
Sb, Sn, Cd, As
96.1
Sb, Sn, Cd, As, Cu
98.1
Sb, Sn, Cd, As, Cu, Bi
99.6
Sb, Sn, Cd, As, Cu, Bi, Ag
100
Data from FBI’s 1373-bullet subset