A First Course in Multivariate Statistics

A First Course in Multivariate Statistics
ISBN-10
1475727658
ISBN-13
9781475727654
Category
Mathematics
Pages
715
Language
English
Published
2013-03-09
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Author
Bernard Flury

Description

A comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the field, carefully balancing mathematical theory and practical applications. It starts at an elementary level, developing concepts of multivariate distributions from first principles. After a chapter on the multivariate normal distribution reviewing the classical parametric theory, methods of estimation are explored using the plug-in principles as well as maximum likelihood. Two chapters on discrimination and classification, including logistic regression, form the core of the book, followed by methods of testing hypotheses developed from heuristic principles, likelihood ratio tests and permutation tests. Finally, the powerful self-consistency principle is used to introduce principal components as a method of approximation, rounded off by a chapter on finite mixture analysis.

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