1999-03-11 Finally! A statistics book in English instead of statistese!

The book is an overview of a variety of multivariate statistical techniques. The book is geared as a companion to a heavy duty stats textbook, with the purpose of providing conceptual discussions of each of the techniques. And it succeeds brilliantly. The authors of each chapter treat the topic statistic with very little, if any Greek, plenty of concrete examples, and clearly delineate the assumptions of the statistical procedure, when it is appropriate and inappropriate to use the procedure, and how to interpret the results of the analysis. If what you want is simply to get a good, practical, conceptual understanding of a statistical procedure and its uses, without any of the theoretical, mathematical derivations, this is the book for you!! This book literally saved my grade in my multivariate stats class. No grad student should be without this.