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Session 12. Multivariate
statistics
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What’s the Aims Mr Wolf?
Key text
• Fletcher & Lock 2005 Digging Numbers
Introduction to
multivariate analysis
In earlier lectures we have seen examples
of univariate analysis using such
techniques as simple bar charts, frequency
tables of one variable and calculations of a
simple sample mean
When 2 variables are involved such as in
clustered bar charts, scatterplots, when
we comparing the mean of 2 groups or
when we are asking is the any association
between 2 variables, then we are using
such techniques of bivariate analysis
Introduction to
multivariate analysis
Cluster analysis
Correspondence Analysis
Multiple regression
Discriminant analysis
Type A:
1. reduction and grouping
2. cluster analysis
We may wish to ask
• Can spearheads be grouped or clustered, so
that those within a cluster are similar to each
other but there are important differences
between the clusters?