Using Multivariate Statistics (ebook)

Multivariate statistics are increasingly popular techniques used for analyzing complicated data sets. They provide analysis when there are many independent variables (IVs) and/or many dependent variables (DVs), all correlated with one another to varying degrees. Because of the difficulty in addressing complicated research questions with univariate analyses and because of the availability of canned software for performing multivariate analyses, multivariate statistics have become widely used. Indeed, a standard univariate statistics course only begins to prepare a student to read research literature or a researcher to produce it.