Multivariate Analysis, Second Edition

by J.T. Kent

This long-awaited revision combines a theoretical and data analytic approach to the subject, whilst emphasising modern developments in the field. Topics covered include econometrics, principal component analysis, factor analysis, canonical correlation analysis, discriminate analysis, cluster analysis, multi-dimensional scaling and directional data. Several methods of presentation, which helped make the first edition popular with professional statisticians and students alike, are used. For example, the data matrix is emphasised throughout, and density-free approach is given to normal theory. Tests are constructed using the likelihood ratio principle and the union intersection principle, and graphical methods are used in explanation.

Combines theoretical and data analytic approach
Appendices provide background of matrix algebra, univariate statistics and statistical tables
Concise presentation

450 pages, Hardcover

First published January 28, 1980

About the author

James Tyler Kent was an American physician best remembered as a forefather of the modern homeopathy movement. In 1897 Kent published a massive guidebook on human ailments and their associated homeopathic remedies which has been translated into a number of languages and remains in use by adherents of homeopathy today.