Understanding Biplots

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Biplots are a graphical method for simultaneously displaying twokinds of information; typically, the variables and sample unitsdescribed by a multivariate data matrix or the items labelling therows and columns of a two-way table. This book aims to popularizewhat is now seen to be a useful and reliable method for thevisualization of multidimensional data associated with, forexample, principal component analysis, canonical variate analysis,multidimensional scaling, multiplicative interaction and varioustypes of correspondence analysis. Understanding Biplots: * Introduces theory and techniques which can be applied toproblems from a variety of areas, including ecology, biostatistics,finance, demography and other social sciences. * Provides novel techniques for the visualization ofmultidimensional data and includes data mining techniques. * Uses applications from many fields including finance,biostatistics, ecology, demography. * Looks at dealing with large data sets as well as smallerones. * Includes colour images, illustrating the graphicalcapabilities of the methods. * Is supported by a Website featuring R code anddatasets. Researchers, practitioners and postgraduate students ofstatistics and the applied sciences will find this book a usefulintroduction to the possibilities of presenting data in informativeways.

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John Gower

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Computational & Graphical Statistics Multivariate Analyse Multivariate Analysis Rechnergestützte u. graphische Statistik Statistics Statistik

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