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Multivariate Probability Distributions in R

Intermediate

Updated 04/2025

Learn to analyze, plot, and model multivariate data.

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Course Description

When working with data that contains many variables, we are often interested in studying the relationship between these variables using multivariate statistics. In this course, you'll learn ways to analyze these datasets. You will also learn about common multivariate probability distributions, including the multivariate normal, the multivariate-t, and some multivariate skew distributions. You will then be introduced to techniques for representing high dimensional data in fewer dimensions, including principal component analysis (PCA) and multidimensional scaling (MDS).

Prerequisites

Foundations of Probability in R

1

Reading and plotting multivariate data

Reading multivariate data

Reading multivariate data using read.table

Specifying datatypes for columns

Mean vector and variance-covariance matrix

Calculating the mean vector

Calculating the variance-covariance matrix

Calculating the correlation matrix

Plotting multivariate data

Pairs plot using base graphics and lattice

Plotting multivariate data using ggplot

3D plotting techniques

2

Multivariate Normal Distribution

Multivariate normal distribution

Samples from multivariate normal distributions

Identify the distribution of a normal sample

Density of a multivariate normal distribution

Calculating the density of multivariate normal

Calculating dmvnorm over a grid

Cumulative Distribution and Inverse CDF

Using the pmvnorm function

Calculating probability contours using qmvnorm

Checking normality of multivariate data

Graphical tests for multivariate normality

Numerical tests for multivariate normality

Test multivariate normality by wine type

3

Other Multivariate Distributions

Other common Multivariate distributions

Generate samples from multivariate t-distribution

Identify the distribution

Density and cumulative density for multivariate-t

Density of multivariate t-distribution

Cumulative distributions and quantiles of t

Comparing normal and t probabilities

Multivariate skewed distributions

Drawing samples from skew distributions

Plotting and testing of skewed-densities

Examine skewness from contour plot

Parameter estimation for multivariate skew-normals

4

Principal Component Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling

Principal Component Analysis

Number of PCs for the state.x77 dataset

Using the princomp function

Choosing the number of components

Calculating the proportion of variation explained

Choosing the number of PCs

Number of components explaining 95% variation

Number of PCs using scree plot

Interpreting PCA attributes

Loadings and scores for the PCs

Visualizing PCA using the factoextra library

Multi-dimensional scaling

Multidimensional scaling in two dimensions

Multidimensional scaling in three dimensions

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