Understanding multivariate analysis

Multivariate analysis is the analysis of three or more variables. This allows us to look at correlations (that is, how one variable changes with respect to another) and attempt to make predictions for future behavior more accurately than with bivariate analysis.

Initially, we explored the visualization of univariate analysis and bivariate analysis; likewise, let's visualize the concept of multivariate analysis.

One common way of plotting multivariate data is to make a matrix scatter plot, known as a pair plot. A matrix plot or pair plot shows each pair of variables plotted against each other. The pair plot allows us to see both the distribution of single variables and the relationships between two variables: ...

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