STAT 363b / STAT 660b Multivariate Statistics for Social Sciences

Day / time: 
Tuesday, Thursday 1:00pm - 2:15pm
Undergraduate
Graduate
Course term: 
Spring

Introduction to the analysis of multivariate data as applied to examples from the social sciences. Topics include principal components analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis (hierarchical clustering, k-means), discriminant analysis, multidimensional scaling, and structural equations modeling. Extensive computer work using either SAS or SPSS programming software.

Prerequisites: knowledge of basic inferential procedures and experience with linear models.