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Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1983, Vol 28(8), 642. Reviews the book, Using Multivariate Statistics by Barbara G. Tabachnick and Linda S. Fidell (1982). All in all this volume should be greeted with warmth by a large segment of the psychological research community, along with workers in related disciplines. It contains a great deal of accurate, understandable, and useful information about a very complicated subject. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
William L. Hays (1983) studied this question.