Talk:Multivariate analysis

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This article is far too technical to be helpful to the layperson, in addition to focusing on particular applications of multivariate analysis, which aren't particularly helpful. Would someone with relevant expertise do a major rewrite of this?

Agreed, even with an MBA, this does not give a reader a reasonably understandable description206.165.64.10 (talk) 17:46, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

I have added PCA to the "see also" section, based on the statement in the first sentence in the preface of Jolliffe I.T. Principal Component Analysis, Series: Springer Series in Statistics, 2nd ed., Springer, NY, 2002, XXIX, 487 p. 28 illus. ISBN 978-0-387-95442-4:

"Principal component analysis is probably the oldest and best known of the techniques of multivariate analysis." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.171.194.142 (talk) 09:42, 19 May 2008 (UTC)