The geometry of ASCA

For analyzing designed high‐dimensional data, no standard methods are currently available. A method that is becoming more and more popular for analyzing such data is ASCA. The mathematics of ASCA are already described elsewhere but a geometrical interpretation is still lacking. The geometry can help practitioners to understand what ASCA does and the more advanced user can get insight into the properties of the method. This paper shows the geometry of ASCA in both the row‐ and column‐space of the matrices involved. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.