Description
This groundbreaking book is the first of its kind to present methods for analyzing multiway data by applying multiway component techniques. Multiway analysis is a specialized branch of the larger field of multivariate statistics that extends the standard methods for two-way data, such as component analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, correspondence analysis, and multidimensional scaling to multiway data. Applied Multiway Data Analysis presents a unique, thorough, and authoritative treatment of this relatively new and emerging approach to data analysis that is applicable across a range of fields, from the social and behavioral sciences to agriculture, environmental sciences, and chemistry.
General introductions to multiway data types, methods, and estimation procedures are provided in addition to detailed explanations and advice for readers who would like to learn more about applying multiway methods. Using carefully laid out examples and engaging applications, the book begins with an introductory chapter that serves as a general overview of multiway analysis, including the types of problems it can address. Next, the process of setting up, carrying out, and evaluating multiway analyses is discussed along with commonly encountered issues, such as preprocessing, missing data, model and dimensionality selection, postprocessing, and transformation, as well as robustness and stability issues.
Extensive examples are presented within a unified framework consisting of a five-step structure: objectives; data description and design; model and dimensionality selection; results and their interpretation; and validation. Procedures featured in the book are conducted using 3WayPack, which is software developed by the author, and analyses can also be carried out within the R and MATLAB systems. Several data sets and 3WayPack can be downloaded via the book's related Web site.
The author presents the material in a clear, accessible style without unnecessary or complex formalism, assuring a smooth transition from well-known standard two-analysis to multiway analysis for readers from a wide range of backgrounds. An understanding of linear algebra, statistics, and principal component analyses and related techniques is assumed, though the author makes an effort to keep the presentation at a conceptual, rather than mathematical, level wherever possible. Applied Multiway Data Analysis is an excellent supplement for component analysis and statistical multivariate analysis courses at the upper-undergraduate and beginning graduate levels. The book can also serve as a primary reference for statisticians, data analysts, methodologists, applied mathematicians, and social science researchers working in academia or industry.
Visit the Related Website: http://three-mode.leidenuniv.nl/, to view data from the book.
About the Author
Pieter M. Kroonenberg, PhD, is Professor of Multivariate Analysis in the Department of Education and Child Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He has over thirty years of academic and consulting experience and has published over fifty articles on the subject of three-mode data analysis.
Reviews
"All topics are well illustrated with good examples from a fairly wide range of applications... the book's usefulness is enhanced by a glossary of multiway terminology, a good index and references to extension work... this is a well-crafted and highly readable book." (Journal of the Royal Statistical Society- Series A, 2009)
"All in all, Kroonenberg's book constitutes an extremely valuable tool for applied researchers in almost all domains of investigation, whenever they are faced with the task of analyzing complex statistical data in view of obtaining useful information in their areas of interest." (Biometrics, June 2009)
"This book is focused primarily toward graduate students in the areas of chemistry, social and behavioral sciences, and environmental sciences, although the techniques and methods used can be more broadly used in other areas, such as finance and engineering, as well." (Technometrics, May 2009)
"Kroonenberg's book constitutes an extremely valuable tool for applied researchers in almost all domains of investigation (from economics to psychology, from biomedicine to technology and physical sciences), whenever they are faced with the task of analyzing complex statistical data in view of obtaining useful information in their areas of interest." (Biometrics 2009)
"...the combination of worked-out examples alongside descriptions and critical considerations on the theory behind those analyses make AMDA an interesting book for researchers and practitioners in both academia and industry. (Journal of the American Statistical Association 2009)
"The book is written in a clear style and mostly in conceptual rather than mathematical level. It emphasized the author's over thirty years' personal experience and practical side of performing multiway data analyses. It is easy to recommend this book, as it really open news views of the world." (International Statistical Review, December 2008)
"Good things take time - and this hold for this book as well...Pieter Kroonenberg is one of the few with a profound knowledge of multiway analysis. It is meritorious that he took the effort to share his knowledge. It is to be hoped that a next edition will appear soon...the book deserves a broad reading public." (Vereniging voor Ordinatie en Classificatie, Nieuwsbrief, no 41, November 2008)
"We believe that this book will offer applied researchers a lot of good advice for using three-way techniques. In addition, Applied Multiway Data-Analysis will turn out to be a valuable resource of reference for three-way specialists." (Mathematical Reviews, 2008)
Book Information
ISBN 9780470164976
Author Pieter M. Kroonenberg
Format Hardback
Page Count 608
Imprint Wiley-Interscience
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 998g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 165mm * 36mm
