Applied multivariate statistical analysis

A state of the art presentation of the tools and concepts of multivariate data analysis with a strong focus on applications. The first part is devoted to graphical techniques describing the distributions of the involved variables. The second part deals with multivariate random variables and presents distributions, estimators and tests for various practical situations. The last part covers mulivariate techniques and introduces the reader into the wide variety of tools for multivariate data analysis. The text presents a wide range of examples and 228 exercises.