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Introduction
If you are often involved with multivariate data analysis, you will be
familiar with terminologies like Principle Component Analysis,
Factor Analysis, Clustering...and so on. However most
of these techniques are trying to plot a multidimensional data set
onto a 2 or 3 dimensional space, and hence we may lose information
that are hidden in other dimensions.
If you have been using a UNIX-based system, you may be
familiar, or may have heard of the free program called
XGobi7.1,
http://www.research.att.com/areas/stat/xgobi/index.html#xgobi.
Unfortunately setting up XGobi with Windows environment is a
non-trivial experience, and involves you have a proper X-Server
running on top of your Windows.
Recently there has been a new development called GGobi,
http://www.ggobi.org/. At the time I write this chapter, GGobi
is stable enough for a normal user.
Ko-Kang Wang
2002-10-10