AM5-5 - Analyzing multidimensional attributes
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- Relate plots of multidimensional attribute data to geography by equating similarity in data space with proximity in geographical space
- Conduct a simple hierarchical cluster analysis to classify area objects into statistically similar regions
- Perform multidimensional scaling (MDS) and principal components analysis (PCA) to reduce the number of coordinates, or dimensionality, of a problem
- Produce plots in several data dimensions using a data matrix of attributes
- Assemble a data matrix of attributes
AM1-2 - Analytical approaches