Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of

 

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1-1949

Citation

JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY VOL. 23, NO. 1, PP. 95-103, JANUARY 1949

Abstract

Multivariate analysis is the simultaneous comparison of three or more variables in order to determine the significance of their likenesses and differences. The technique has been in use for some thirteen years, but no simple account of the method has hitherto been available. An illustrative example from invertebrate paleontology is here used, but the method is applicable to any problem in geology involving several quantitatively known variables.

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