Multivariate Statistical Analysis
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Classical multivariate statistical methods concern models, distributions and inference based on the Gaussian distribution. These are the topics in the first textbook for mathematical statisticians by T.W. Anderson that was published in 1958 and that appeared as a slightly expanded 3rd edition in 2003. Matrix theory and notation is used there extensively to efficiently derive properties of the multivariate Gaussian or the Wishart distribution, of principal components, of canonical correlation and discriminant analysis and of the general multivariate linear model in which a Gaussian response vector variable Ya has linear least-squares regression on all components of an explanatory vector variable Yb. In contrast, many methods for analysing sets of observed variables have been developed first within special substantive fields and some or all of the models in a given class were justified in terms of probabilistic and statistical theory much later. Among them are factor analysis, path analysis, structural equation models, and models for which partial-least squares estimation have been proposed. Other multivariate techniques such as cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling have been often used, but the result of such an analysis cannot be formulated as a hypothesis to be tested in a new study and satisfactory theoretical justifications are still lacking. Factor analysis was proposed by psychologist C. Spearman (1904), (1926) and, at the time, thought of as a tool for measuring human intelligence. Such a model has one or several latent variables. These are hidden or unobserved and are to explain the observed correlations among a set of observed variables, called items in that context. The difficult task is to decide how many and which of a possibly large set of items to include into a model. But, given a set of latent variables, a classical factor analysis model specifies for a joint Gaussian distribution mutual independence of the observed variables given the latent variables. This can be recognized to be one special type of a graphical Markov model; see Cox and Wermuth (1996), Edwards (2000), Lauritzen (1996), Whittaker (1990).
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