Making Sense of Multivariate Data Analysis
An Intuitive Approach
'This book serves as a resource for readers who want to have an overall view of what encompasses multivariate analyses. The author has discussed some important issues rather philosophically (e.g., theory vs. data analysis). These points are valuable even for readers who have extensive training with multivariate analyses' —Jenn-Yun Tein, Arizona State University
“This book serves as a resource for readers who want to have an overall view of what encompasses multivariate analyses. The author has discussed some important issues rather philosophically (e.g., theory vs. data analysis). These points are valuable even for readers who have extensive training with multivariate analyses.”
“This book is a helpful guide to reading and understanding multivariate data analysis results in social and psychological research.”
"Spicer's book is a superb overview of multivariate statistics, but without formulas. Even though he is trying to offer a nontechnical overview of multivariate analyses, he doesn't shortchange the reader in any way. As much as you might know about stat, you'll learn some more here."
This book is easy to understand although multivariate analysis is complicated. Students find it very helpful especially when interpreting the analytic results.
The approach of using published articles as illustrations and non-mathematical languages are definitely useful for social science students to understand the complexity of mutlivariate analysis in context.
It is a straightforward presentation of analysis procedures included in this course. I have used a number of QASS series publications in teaching data analysis for almost 20 years. I had them as texts when I was a PhD student. Generally more accepted by students than more in-depth treatments.
