ABSTRACT
The analysis of multivariate data is part of most quantitative social research projects. Although elementary statistics tells us how to analyse data on single variables, much of the interest in social science lies in the interrelationships between many variables. We are often just as interested, for example, in whether people’s views on global warming are related to their political views as in their views on either topic in isolation. When we come to consider many such variables simultaneously, the volume of data becomes large and the pattern of possible interrelationships can be very complex indeed. This book gives methods for exploring such interrelationships.
