Advanced multivariate statistics

This course is divided in two parts: (i) inference for multivariate analysis and (ii) exploratory multivariate analysis. The first part takes up the concepts of inferential multivariate statistical analysis, extending the theory about univariate inferential statistics with all the implications this extension involves. Additional topics in this context are Bayesian networks and multivariate bootstrapping. The second part will focus on exploratory multivariate analysis and will focus on further dimensional reduction techniques, correlation analysis and advanced clustering. During the course, applications to real situations will be presented using mainly the R statistical package.

Students will achieve skills for doing independent study and research in presence of multivariate data. Moreover, they will learn how to use dedicated R libraries to deal with multivariate contexts.