May 2024
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
12h 1m
English
We refer to multivariate analysis as the case when there are several outcome or response variables of interest, so that each of the measurements is collected on each of the experimental units in the study; i.e., the response for each subject is a vector.
Traditional least squares analyses are covered in the textbooks by Seber (1984) and Johnson and Wichern (2007). Nonparametric approaches are covered in Chapter 6 of Hettmansperger and McKean (2011) and Oja (2010).
As an example, consider the nutrient dataset in the R package profileR (Bulut and Desjardins, 2018). The data were collected in 1985 for a study of women's nutrition; a sample of females aged 25-50 was taken. There are five outcome measurements ...
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