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Why Multivariable Analyses?

University of Georgia

Following a brief interpretation of a multivariate analysis, purposes of such an analysis are reviewed. A discussion of two primary purposes, prediction and structure identification, and of the secondary purpose of response variable ordering is given. Concluding comments are made pertaining to the necessity of a sound initial choice of response variables and to the questionable use of a multivariate analysis preliminary to simpler analyses if the latter constitute the analysis of interpretive interest.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 54, No. 3, 620-627 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/0013164494054003005


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