Context MVA: Multivariate Data Analysis * Input: MIDAS tables. No missing values! Routines available: * PCA: Principal Components Analysis. Dimensionality reduction of a given multidimensional parameter values. Projections may be plotted, to provide an optimal low-dimensional representation of the objects or of the parameters. * PARTITION: Determine a set of non-overlapping clusters, given a set of objects characterized by a set of parameters. * CLUSTER: Hierarchical clustering, which determines a sequence of partitions of the set of objects. * CORRESP: Similar objectives to PCA. More appropriate for categorical and other types of input data. * LDA: Linear Discriminant Analysis. Assess separation between known class assignments of objects. Two-class case. * MDA: Multiple Discriminant Analysis. Multi-class generalization of LDA. * KNN: K-Nearest Neighbors Discriminant Analysis. Non-linear discrimination between two classes.