TY - BOOK AU - Rencher, Alvin AU - Christensen, William F. TI - Methods of multivariate analysis SN - 9780470178966 AV - QA 278 .R46 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - New Jersey PB - John Wiley & Son, Inc. KW - MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Matrix algebra -- 3. Characterizing and displaying multivariate data -- 4. The Multivariate normal distribution -- 6. Multivariate analysis of variance -- 7. Tests on covariance matrices -- 8. Discriminant analysis : description of group separation -- 9. Classification analysis : allocation of observations of groups -- 10. Multivariate regression -- 11. Canonical correlation -- 12. Principal component analysis -- 13. Exploratory factor analysis -- 15. Cluster analysis -- 16. Graphical procedures N2 - This new edition, now with a co-author, offers a complete and up-to-date examination of the field. The authors have streamlined previously tedious topics, such as multivariate regression and MANOVA techniques, to add newer, more timely content ER -