MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does multivariate analysis mean? 

• MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS (noun)
  The noun MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS has 1 sense:

1. a generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable

  Familiarity information: MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A generic term for any statistical technique used to analyze data from more than one variable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("multivariate analysis" is a kind of...):

statistical method; statistical procedure (a method of analyzing or representing statistical data; a procedure for calculating a statistic)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "multivariate analysis"):

multiple correlation; multiple regression (a statistical technique that predicts values of one variable on the basis of two or more other variables)

regression analysis (the use of regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another)

correlational analysis (the use of statistical correlation to evaluate the strength of the relations between variables)

analysis of variance; ANOVA (a statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means; a statistical method that yields values that can be tested to determine whether a significant relation exists between variables)