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Analyzing Multivariate Data by James Lattin, J. Douglas Carroll, and Paul E. Green. Brooks/Cole - Thompson Learning, Pacific Grove, CA 93950. 2003. xxiv + 556 pp. $95.95.
This book is a well-organized and well-written text for students who have had at least a basic course in statistics. The stated objective is "to make students intelligent users of these multivariate techniques and good critics of multivariate analyses performed by others". This book is a successor to Analyzing Multivariate Data (1978) by Paul Green, not a second edition. It contains many of the same topics as its predecessor (greatly expanded and updated), but some new techniques have been added.
The book is written in a manner that facilitates: (1) an understanding of how the technique works (intuition); (2) proper application of the technique; and (3) correct interpretation of results. The text is divided into three parts and thirteen chapters, as follows.
Part I. Overview
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Vectors and Matrices
Chapter...