Methods Of Multivariate Analysis Third Edition Alvin C Rencher by Alvin C. Rencher, William F. Christensen(auth.) 9780470178966, 9781118391686, 0470178965, 1118391683 instant download after payment.

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."
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Filled 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:

• Confirmatory Factor Analysis
• Classification Trees
• Dynamic Graphics
• Transformations to Normality
• Prediction for Multivariate Multiple Regression
• Kronecker Products and Vec Notation

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.Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–5):
Chapter 2 Matrix Algebra (pages 7–45):
Chapter 3 Characterizing and Displaying Multivariate Data (pages 47–90):
Chapter 4 The Multivariate Normal Distribution (pages 91–123):
Chapter 5 Tests on One or Two Mean Vectors (pages 125–167):
Chapter 6 Multivariate Analysis of Variance (pages 169–257):
Chapter 7 Tests on Covariance Matrices (pages 259–280):
Chapter 8 Discriminant Analysis: Description of Group Separation (pages 281–308):
Chapter 9 Classification Analysis: Allocation of Observations to Groups (pages 309–337):
Chapter 10 Multivariate Regression (pages 339–383):
Chapter 11 Canonical Correlation (pages 385–403):
Chapter 12 Principal Component Analysis (pages 405–433):
Chapter 13 Exploratory Factor Analysis (pages 435–477):
Chapter 14 Confirmatory Factor Analysis (pages 479–500):
Chapter 15 Cluster Analysis (pages 501–554):
Chapter 16 Graphical Procedures (pages 555–596):