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What's New in Stata 10: Multivariate Analysis

Overview

Stata added or improved a number of multivariate procedures is Stata 9. Stata 10 continues to imrpove upon multivariate techniques by adding full k-group discriminant function analysis, adding multiple correspondence analysis (mca), and by improving the multideminsional scaling (mds) program.

1: Discriminant analysis

Stata has added the following discriminant analysis procedures:
discrim lda -- classical linear discriminant function analysis
discrim knn -- kth nearest neighbor discriminant analysis
discrim logistic -- logistic discriminant analysis
discrim qda -- quadratic discriminant analysis
candisc -- linear discriminant analysis commonly used options

We will demonstrate examples of these commands using Fisher's Iris example.

2: Correspondence analysis

Correspondence analysis has been improved by adding multiple correspondence analysis (mca) to the existing simple correspondence analysis (ca).

3: Multidimensional scaling

Improved multideminsional scaling (mds) addingg for modern metric and nonmetric MDS in addition to classical multidimensional scaling.


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