Recently, computer-oriented statistical approaches for data analysis as are called Multivariate Data Analysis and Quantification Theory are paid attention to as methods for prediction of unknown data and for abstraction of complicated phenomena in various kinds of fields like psychology, economics, chemistry, medicine, etc.
The methods can be classified into two groups as follows.
(1) Methods to describe a given property using some other properties, which can be employed to predict unknown data.
(2) Methods to summarize data.
In this article the application of these methods to studies on paper is described. Included are quantification theory type 1, 3 and 4, multiple regression analysis, time series analysis, principal component analysis, factor analysis, multidimensional scaling.
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