Product Description: This is a main text for an upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level introductory statistics course in departments of psychology, educational psychology, education and related areas.

Product Description: Aside from distribution theory, projections and the singular value decomposition (SVD) are the two most important concepts for understanding the basic mechanism of multivariate analysis. The former underlies the least squares estimation in regression analysis, which is essentially a projection of one subspace onto another, and the latter underlies principal component analysis, which seeks to find a subspace that captures the largest variability in the original space...read more