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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      12 November 2009
      30 April 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511524882
      9780521575560
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511524882
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      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 384 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Earth and Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences, Palaeontology and Life History, Evolutionary Biology
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    This graduate-level text aims to introduce students of the natural sciences to the powerful technique of factor analysis and to provide them with the background necessary to be able to undertake analyses on their own. A thoroughly updated and expanded version of the authors' successful textbook on geological factor analysis, this book draws on examples from botany, zoology, ecology, and oceanography, as well as geology. Applied multivariate statistics has grown into a research area of almost unlimited potential in the natural sciences. The methods introduced in this book, such as classical principal components, principal component factor analysis, principal coordinate analysis, and correspondence analysis, can reduce masses of data to manageable and interpretable form. Q-mode and Q-R-mode methods are also presented. Special attention is given to methods of robust estimation and the identification of atypical and influential observations. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on application rather than theory.

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    ‘Overall I found this to be an excellent volume and would certainly recommend it to anyone who wishes to understand factor analysis in the wide sense, whatever their background discipline.’

    David J. Hand Source: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society

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