Statistics Toolbox

Multivariate Statistics

Introduction

Multivariate statistics is an omnibus term for a number of different statistical methods. The defining characteristic of these methods is that they all aim to understand a data set by considering a group of variables together rather than focusing on only one variable at a time.

The Statistics Toolbox has functions for these methods:

• Principal Components Analysis
• Factor Analysis
• Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA)
• Cluster Analysis
• Classical Multidimensional Scaling

Available Hypothesis Tests

Principal Components Analysis