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Minitab Cookbook

By : Isaac A Newton
Book Image

Minitab Cookbook

By: Isaac A Newton

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Minitab Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Multivariate tools can be useful in exploring large datasets. They help us find patterns and correlations in the data; or, try to identify groups from within a larger dataset.

Tools such as principal components analysis and factor analysis are used as a way to identify underlying correlations or factors that are hidden in the data. The clustering tools try to find a similarity between observations or columns; for example, finding the similarity between how close the rows and variables are to each other.

Correspondence analysis helps us investigate relationships between two-way tables and even more complex tabular data.

We may find the use of multivariate tools as a precursor to modeling data in regression or ANOVA as these techniques can often lead to an understanding of the relationships between variables and the dimensionality of our results.

The data files used in the recipes are available for download on the Packt website.

The Multivariate tools are found under the Stat menu...