Second semester

Multivariate data analysis

Objectifs

Conduct a descriptive statistics study (detection of dependencies between variables, detection of atypical individuals, visualization, detection of homogeneous sub-populations).

Plan

Factor methods (principal component analysis, discriminant factor analysis, correspondence analysis and multiple correspondence analysis) and clustering (Kmeans, Kmedoids, hierarchical ascending classification, mixture models).

Prérequis

Linear algebra, descriptive statistics course