“…principal component analysis -PCA), or a data fusion followed by PCA, with a single multi-block data analysis applied to all of them, with the advantage to bring the 'saliences' of each block indicating the importance of each one and its variability in each dimension (Bouveresse et al, 2011;Mishra et al, 2020). In the literature, ComDim has been applied to characterize complex samples in several ways (Bouveresse et al, 2011;Loudiyi, Rutledge, & Aït-Kaddour, 2018;Martin et al, 2015;Ríos-Reina, Callejón, Savorani, Amigo, & Cocchi, 2019;Rosa et al, 2017). However, the potential of multi-block methods is little explored due to the lack of experience of many analysts (Mishra et al, 2020).…”