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THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER described inference on the multivariate normal distribution. Sometimes this is more than we actually need. The multivariate distribution is used as a basis of modeling means and covariances. The covariances describe the multivariate relationship between pairs of individual attributes. In this chapter, we go further and describe methods for identifying relationships between several variables concurrently. In the following chapter, we will use regression methods to model the means.
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Zelterman, D. (2022). Factor Methods. In: Applied Multivariate Statistics with R. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13005-2_8
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