The appropriate groupings are likely to result from the application of multivariate methods such as cluster analysis.
Another approach is numerical classification, also called ordination, where soil individuals are grouped by multivariate statistical methods such as cluster analysis.
Factor analysis is mentioned here as one example of the many multivariate statistical methods used by educational psychologists.
All these multivariate descriptive methods try to distill large amounts of data into simpler structures.
The lack of the cutting points concerns other multivariate methods, also.
The goal of some of the first multivariate biometric methods was to address the perennial problem of group discrimination and inter-group characterization.
As many of those variables were obviously correlated with each other, their study according to multivariate methods was mandatory.
Time series analysis: Univariate and multivariate methods.
Often, multivariate methods are used to separate spectral signatures of sample components.
Because of this, most traditional multivariate statistical methods cannot be applied.