ABSTRACT
In this chapter we shall be concerned with a variety of approaches to the examination of relationships when more than two variables are involved. Clearly, these concerns follow on directly from those of Chapter 8, in which we focused upon bivariate analysis of relationships. In the present chapter, we shall be concerned to explore the reasons for wanting to analyse three or more variables in conjunction; that is, why multivariate analysis is an important aspect of the examination of relationships among variables.
