Managing the Variate

 

Specifying the Variate Variables

• To decide whether to use the individual variables or to perform some form of dimensional reduction, such as exploratory factor analysis. 

Variable Selection

• To make regarding the variate is if the researcher wants to control the specific variables to be included in the analysis or let the software determine the “best” set of variables to constitute the variate.

Nguồn: 

• Hair, J. F., Black, W. C., Babin, B. J., & Anderson, R. E. (2019). Multivariate data analysis (8th ed.). Boston: Cengage.