Methods of Multivariate Analysis
Reeks: Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
Alvin C. Rencher ; William F. Christensen
- Praise
- for
- the
- Second
- Edition"This
- book
- is
- a
- systematic,
- well-written,
- well-organized
- text
- on
- multivariate
- analysis
- packed
- with
- intuition
- and
- insight
- .
- .
- .
- There
- is
- much
- practical
- wisdom
- in
- this
- book
- that
- is
- hard
- to
- find
- elsewhere."
-IIE
- TransactionsFilled
- with
- new
- and
- timely
- content,
- Methods
- of
- Multivariate
- Analysis,
- Third
- Edition
- provides
- examples
- and
- exercises
- based
- on
- more
- than
- sixty
- real
- data
- sets
- from
- a
- wide
- variety
- of
- scientific
- fields.
- It
- takes
- a
- "methods"
- approach
- to
- the
- subject,
- placing
- an
- emphasis
- on
- how
- students
- and
- practitioners
- can
- employ
- multivariate
- analysis
- in
- real-life
- situations.This
- Third
- Edition
- continues
- to
- explore
- the
- key
- descriptive
- and
- inferential
- procedures
- that
- result
- from
- multivariate
- analysis.
- Following
- a
- brief
- overview
- of
- the
- topic,
- the
- book
- goes
- on
- to
- review
- the
- fundamentals
- of
- matrix
- algebra,
- sampling
- from
- multivariate
- populations,
- and
- the
- extension
- of
- common
- univariate
- statistical
- procedures
- (including
- t-tests,
- analysis
- of
- variance,
- and
- multiple
- regression)
- to
- analogous
- multivariate
- techniques
- that
- involve
- several
- dependent
- variables.
- The
- latter
- half
- of
- the
- book
- describes
- statistical
- tools
- that
- are
- uniquely
- multivariate
- in
- nature,
- including
- procedures
- for
- discriminating
- among
- groups,
- characterizing
- low-dimensional
- latent
- structure
- in
- high-dimensional
- data,
- identifying
- clusters
- in
- data,
- and
- graphically
- illustrating
- relationships
- in
- low-dimensional
- space.
- In
- addition,
- the
- authors
- explore
- a
- wealth
- of
- newly
- added
- topics,
- including:New
- exercises
- have
- been
- added
- throughout
- the
- book,
- allowing
- readers
- to
- test
- their
- comprehension
- of
- the
- presented
- material.
- Detailed
- appendices
- provide
- partial
- solutions
- as
- well
- as
- supplemental
- tables,
- and
- an
- accompanying
- FTP
- site
- features
- the
- book's
- data
- sets
- and
- related
- SAS®
- code.Requiring
- only
- a
- basic
- background
- in
- statistics,
- Methods
- of
- Multivariate
- Analysis,
- Third
- Edition
- is
- an
- excellent
- book
- for
- courses
- on
- multivariate
- analysis
- and
- applied
- statistics
- at
- the
- upper-undergraduate
- and
- graduate
- levels.
- The
- book
- also
- serves
- as
- a
- valuable
- reference
- for
- both
- statisticians
- and
- researchers
- across
- a
- wide
- variety
- of disciplines.
