Fig. 12

Comparison of the factors in the metabolites and time modes extracted from the T0-corrected data of two data sets with different levels of individual variation. Both data sets have 50 insulin-resistant subjects and 50 control subjects. Individual variations are introduced by setting the random perturbation level to \(\alpha =0.2\) in one data set versus \(\alpha =0.4\) in the other data set. The vectors \({{\mathbf {{a}}}}_{r}\), \({{\mathbf {{b}}}}_{r}\) and \({{\mathbf {{c}}}}_{r}\), \(r=1, \ldots , 4\), correspond the components in the subjects, metabolites and time modes extracted by the CP models