Applied Multivariate Statistics with SAS® Software

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Summary: Poorly named text book
Review: Imagine a book title "Applied Multivariate Statistics" that does NOT include ANYTHING about Principal Components or Factor Analysis. If you've been looking for such a book, this is the one for you.

However, if you're looking for a text with details about running PCA or Factor Analysis using the SAS system, continue looking!!!!

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Summary: Very Nice Introduction to Multivariate Analysis using SAS
Review: The authors gave a short tutorial on the book at the Deming conference last year. I enjoyed the presentation and the book which is not expensive was discounted. I met both authors. They are experts in multivariate analysis having studied under C. R. Rao at Pittsburgh. The book provides lots of SAS code and does a good job of explaining how to set-up the analysis in SAS which would not be straightforward from the SAS manuals. The authors discuss diagnostics and with most concepts they explain them first for univariate problems and then show you how it is extended to the multivariate case. It is also one of the few books that deals with multivariate outliers. Outliers can be difficult to detect in regression and high dimensional multivariate data. I have some research experience in the area of outlier detection and can appreciate the way the authors deal with it.