Abstract
The value of an analysis based on simultaneous observations on several variables—height, weight, blood pressure, and cholesterol level, for example, is that it can be used to detect subtle changes that might not be detectable, except with very large, prohibitively expensive samples, were you to consider only one variable at a time.
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Good, P. (1994). Multivariate Analysis. In: Permutation Tests. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2346-5_5
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