Statistics Toolbox

Multivariate Statistics

Multivariate statistics is an omnibus term for a number of different statistical methods. The defining characteristic of these methods is that they all aim to understand a data set by considering a group of variables together rather than focusing on only one variable at a time.

The Statistics Toolbox has functions for principal components analysis (princomp), multivariate analysis of variance (manova1), and linear discriminant analysis (classify). The following sections illustrate the first two functions:

• Principal Components Analysis
• Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA)

Available Hypothesis Tests

Principal Components Analysis