George Fernandez

Director/ Center for Research Design and Analysis (CRDA) /ms 088

 Professor of Applied  Statistics

University of Nevada   Reno NV 89557

(775) 784-4206

 Applied Multivariate Statistical methods

  Center for Research Design and Analysis (CRDA) /SFB 100F

Office hours:

Text book: (Required)

George Fernandez (2002) Data Mining using SAS applications CRC-Chapman Hall USA

  Reference:

Dallas E. Johnson Applied Multivariate methods for Data Analysis -  DUXBURY press

Latin, Carroll & Green    Analyzing Multivariate Data DUXBURY

 Subhash Sharma      Applied Multivariate Technique Wiley & Sons

Hair, Anderson, Tatham & Black Multivariate Data Analysis 5th edition Prentice Hall

  Objectives:

   To study the principles and procedures  of using Multivariate statistical methods using user-friendly SAS applications

Course Topics

Introduction To Multivariate Statistical Methods 2 lectures

Principal Component Analysis 2 lectures

Factor Analysis  2 lectures

Cluster Analysis   2 lectures

Mid-term test

Canonical Correlations 3 lectures

Multivariate Regression 2 lectures

Multivariate ANOVA 3 lectures

Discriminant Analysis 3 lectures

Final exam