Multivariate Statistical Methods:
Practical Research Applications

Zagreb, 4th – 6th June 2008
Overview and Examples of Multivariate Methods
- introduction and examples of multivariate statistics
- review of univariate statistics
Analysis of Groups: Multivariate Analysis of Variance
- introduction to multivariate analysis of variance
- factorial MANOVA
- contrasts
More Multivariate Linear Models
- multivariate repeated measures
- doubly multivariate repeated measures
- multivariate multiple regression
- canonical correlation
Classification Into Groups: Discriminant Analysis
- canonical discriminant analysis
- linear discriminant analysis
- quadratic discriminant analysis
- discriminant analysis and crossvalidation
- stepwise discriminant analysis
Variable Reduction and Extraction of Meaningful Factors
- principal components analysis
- exploratory factor analysis
Cronbach's coefficient alpha for scale reliability
- Analysis of Structure Using the CALIS Procedure
- introduction to structural models and confirmatory factor analysis
- confirmatory factor analysis
- structural equation models with repeated measurements
Additional Data Topics
- preparing data for multivariate analysis
- checking assumptions
