tailieunhanh - MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS IN MANAGEMENT, ENGINEERING AND THE SCIENCES

Recently statistical knowledge has become an important requirement and occupies a prominent position in the exercise of various professions. In the real world, the processes have a large volume of data and are naturally multivariate and as such, require a proper treatment. For these conditions it is difficult or practically impossible to use methods of univariate statistics. The wide application of multivariate techniques and the need to spread them more fully in the academic and the business justify the creation of this book | MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS IN MANAGEMENT ENGINEERING AND THE SCIENCES Edited by Leandro Valim de Freitas and Ana Paula Barbosa Rodrigues de Freitas Multivariate Analysis in Management Engineering and the Sciences http 3301 Edited by Leandro Valim de Freitas and Ana Paula Barbosa Rodrigues de Freitas Contributors Leandro Valim de Freitas Ana Paula Barbosa Rodrigues de Freitas Fernando Augusto Silva Marins Estéfano Vizconde Veraszto José Tarcísio Franco de Camargo J. Paulo Davim Messias Borges Silva K. Bohm E. Smidt J. Tintner Dirceu da Silva Gisella Lamas Samanamud Carla Cristina Almeida Loures Fatima Salman Túlio Lima dos Santos Rosangela Villwock Maria Teresinha Arns Steiner Andrea Sell Dyminski Anselmo Chaves Neto Silvia Cateni Marco Vannucci Marco Vannocci Valentina Colla Hilton Túlio Lima dos Santos André Mauricio de OliveiraPatricia Gontijo de Melo Wagner Freitas M. Schwanninger John R. Castro-Suarez William Ortiz-Rivera Nataly Galan-Freyle Amanda Figueroa-Navedo Leonardo C. Pacheco-Londono Samuel P. Hernandez-Rivera Diletta Ami Paolo Mereghetti Silvia Maria Doglia Mohammad Ali Zare Chahouki Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9 51000 Rijeka Croatia Copyright 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution license which allows users to download copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes as long as the author and publisher are properly credited which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech authors have the right to republish it in whole or part in any publication of which they are the author and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Notice Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No