SCMA643-901 Spring 2015 (31571)
This page last updated on April 8, 2015 by Robert L. Andrews, Instructor
SCMA643 Lecture Materials SCMA643 Homework with Solutions SCMA643 data files

Textbooks
Required: Multivariate Data Analysis by Hair, Black, Babin, Anderson and Tatham, 7th edition (2010) ISBN-13: 978-0138132637 from Prentice-Hall; you may also use 6th edition (2006) ISBN-10: 0130329290; ISBN-13: 978-0130329295 which has all of the content that will be used in the MGMT643 course.
Suggested: Discovering Statistics Using SPSS by Andy Field, Sage publications, Fourth Edition ISBN: 9781446249185 (Third Edition ISBN: 9781847879073)
Suggested: JMP for Basic Univariate and Multivariate Statistics by Ann Lehman, Norm O'Rourke, Larry Hatcher, and Edward J. Stepanski, SAS Institute Inc., Second Edition ISBN: 9781612906034 (e-book ISBN: 9781612906256)
Suggested: Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences by James P. Stevens
Fifth Edition (2009) published by Taylor & Francis, Inc. ISBN13: 9780805859034
You can also use Fourth Edition (2002) from Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers
ISBN: 0-8058-3777-9 for paperback version & ISBN: 0-8058-3776-0 for hardback version

Homepage for the Hair text

Syllabus for SCMA643 - Spring 2015 (Word document)
STUDENT RESOURCE GUIDE: VCU Insider (Web Page)

Assignment 1 - Spring 2015 (Word document)
Assignment 2 - Spring 2015 (Word document)
Term Project - Spring 2015 (Word document)

Information for Microsoft Office (VCU Web page, free for qualified VCU students)
Office 2013 is installed in our classroom and Excel will be used extensively throughout the course.

Information for JMP Pro for VCU students (VCU Web page, free for qualified VCU students)
JMP Pro 11 will be installed in our classroom. It interfaces with Excel and has good graphic capabilities as well as advanced statistical analysis capabilities.

VCU students may install SPSS on personally owned computers. SPSS was originally Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
VCU Information for SPSS (Web page)
Download Information for SPSS (Web page)
IBM SPSS 22 is installed on the computers in the classroom, but you may use another release.

Quiz 1, Part 1 (Word document)

VCU class status during inclement weather (Web page)

Virginia General Assembly (Web page) If you are a Virginia resident then the amount you pay for tuition is basically determined by the portion of the total cost that is funded by the Commonwealth. Your legislators are the ones who determine this amount. You can find out who they are and how to contact them about the support provided for higher education.

ratemyprofessors.com(Web page)

Kristina Hash's overview of multivariate methods (Word document)

Overview of chapter 1 & prequisite material (Excel document)

Matrices, Data & Foundational Information (Excel document)
Matrix operations, basic descriptive statistics for multivariate data, eigenvalues & eigenvectors for covariance matrices, Euclidean distance between two points

WolframAlpha a computational & knowledge engine (Web page)

Example illustrating centering and standardizing data (Excel document)

Example illustrating rotation of data (eigen vectors) (Excel document)

Principal Component Analysis & Factor Analysis (Excel document)

Examples illustrating principal component method for factor analysis of 2 variables using covariance matrix and using correlation matrix.

Factor Analysis of X1-X7 of HATCO data with JMP, SAS & SPSS previous file
Factor Analysis of X1-X7 of HATCO data with JMP & SPSS 2-21-15 file

Multicollinearity in OLS Regression guidelines (Word document)
Multicollinearity in OLS Regression example (Excel document)
SPSS file with data for Multicollinearity in OLS Regression example above; two Examples A & B in Hair text (pg 203 7th ed.); & Ukrops data (SPSS file)
Factor loadings for HBAT200 from 2-28-2011 (Excel 2003 document)

MANOVA 2 variable example (Excel document)

MANOVA: & Discriminant with JMP & SPSS (Excel document)
MANOVA: Normality Assumption, Equal Variance Structure & Post Hoc tests in SPSS (Old Excel document)
Sample Data set for MANOVA MANOVA significant for group 1 but ANOVAs not significant for variables X, Y & Z. (SPSS file) Accompanies Excel file above & below

Data for SOL pass rates (SPSS file) These provide data for factor analysis of 3 variables and for MANOVA
Comparison between JMP & SPSS MANOVA output (Excel document)
JMP & SPSS MANOVA & Excel 2-factor output for balanced design (Excel document)

Demo for Discriminant Analysis (Excel document)

MANOVA & Discriminant Analysis: JMP, SAS & SPSS Basics for MANOVA data set (Excel document)

Discriminant Analysis: Prior Probability Specification in SPSS & JMP (Word document)

Example illustrating Logistic Regression (Excel document)

Logistic Regression Results for Failed Companies Data (Excel document)

Logistic Regression Overview Web page for G. David Garson of North Carolina State University
Note link can take you to another website http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/logistic.htm that will provide several options for obtaining a copy, including a pdf via registering for free.

Cluster Analysis overview for SPSS (Word document)

Excel Illustration file for Cluster Analysis (Excel document)

Excel file with Hair text illustration of Cluster Analysis 100 HBAT (Excel 2007 document)
SPSS file with 100 observations for HBAT data for Hair 7th edition (SPSS file)

Cluster Analysis for 8 country example (SPSS data set)
Cluster Analysis for 8 country example (Excel document)


AutoOnline Excel file with Auto Online data
AutoOnline SPSS file with Auto Online data