Textbooks (I am not requiring a specific text. I use material from multiple sources. I will post Excel spreadsheets with material I use for class lectures on a class webpage.)

Primary text: 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 SCMA643.

Supplemental Textbooks: (I will use material that comes from these texts.)
Data Mining for Business Analytics by Galit Shmuel, Peter C. Bruce & Nitin R. Patel (2016), John Wiley & Sons

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
There is a recently released Sixth Edition by Keenan A. Pituch & James P. Stevens ISBN: 9780415836661.

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)

Discovering Statistics Using SPSS by Andy Field, Fourth Edition from Sage publications; (Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4462-4917-8) (Third Edition will also work.) (This book is listed because previous students have reported that it was helpful & is not an endorsement of Andy’s off-the-wall writing style.)

Syllabus for SCMA643 - Spring 2017 (Word document)

Assignment 1 - Spring 2017 (Word document) Due 9 AM March 27, 2017
Presentation for Assignment 1 - Spring 2017 (Word document) Due 9 AM Friday, April 7, 2017
Assignment 3 - deciding on project topic & data set (Word document) Due 9 AM Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Assignment 4 - Discriminant Analysis using summated variables (Word document) Due 9 AM Monday, May 1, 2017
Election outcomes - Political parties (Excel document)
Project (Word document) Due by May 10 to avoid receiving an incomplete grade

Information for Microsoft Office (VCU Web page, free for qualified VCU students)
Microsoft Office is installed in our classroom. 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 will be installed in our classroom, but you may use another release. It interfaces with Excel and has good graphic capabilities as well as advanced statistical analysis capabilities.
JMP provided Learning Materials (JMP Web page with links to videos and pdf files)

VCU students may install SPSS on personally owned computers. SPSS was originally Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
VCU Information for SPSS (Web page)
IBM SPSS 23 is installed on the computers in the classroom, but you may use another release.

Homepage for the Hair text

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)

Introduction, Overview & 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, standardizing & eigenvalues for data (xlsx Excel revised document)

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

Principal Component Analysis & Factor Analysis (Excel document)

Multicollinearity in OLS Regression guidelines (Word document)
Multicollinearity in OLS Regression example (Excel document)
SPSS file for hospital variables (SPSS file)
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)

Summated Scales from Factor Analysis and Canonical Correlation (Excel document)

MANOVA 2 variable example (Excel document)
Sample Data set for MANOVA (SPSS file) MANOVA significant for group 1 but ANOVAs not significant for variables X, Y & Z. Accompanies Excel file above & below
MANOVA with JMP & SPSS and Assuptions appling to MANOVA & Discriminant Analysis (Excel document)
Demo for Discriminant Analysis (Excel document)
MANOVA & Discriminant Analysis: JMP & SPSS Basics for MANOVA data set (Excel document)

Example illustrating Logistic Regression (Excel document)

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

Cluster Analysis overview for SPSS (Word document)
Excel Illustration file for Cluster Analysis (Excel document)

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

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)

MANOVA & Discriminant Analysis: JMP, SAS & SPSS Basics for MANOVA data set (Excel 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://www.statisticalassociates.com/logistic.htm that will provide several options for obtaining a copy, including a pdf via registering for free.

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)

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