Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Disciplines (hierarchy name)
4. disciplines (concept)
5. [science and related disciplines]
6. science (modern discipline)
7. mathematics
8. statistics

Narrower term/s

• factor analysis
• cluster analysis
• principal component analysis[+]
  • multidimensional scaling
• discriminant analysis

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to a set of statistical techniques that analyze data sets with more than one variable when there is inherent interdependence between them. Techniques of multivariate analysis include cluster and factor analysis. Multivariate analysis is often used in archaeology, e.g. to aid classification of artifact compositional data.