Multivariate Statistical Methods

I have been using the third edition of Bryan Manly's Multivariate Statistical Methods in my graduate class on System Analysis for the last three years. Personally, I like this book and I advise my students to continue using it, even after the course is over, as it serves as a compact guide to multivariate statistics. It is a short textbook, but it still nicely covers a variety of different and difficult topics, and it demonstrates the many possible approaches to solving a given problem. The book is quite well organized; it includes some necessary mathematical background such as linear algebra, but also good examples and different sets of interesting data which are used to illustrate different methods. Later these sets are needed to solve problems, which could be used by students to assist their homework assignments. I am looking forward to using this new and improved edition of the book in my courses! -Alexey L Sadovski, Professor of Mathematics, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Praise for the Third Edition: The previous edition (2E) was reviewed by Nemeth (1997), who was enthusiastic about the book's role as 'an excellent, easy-to-read introduction to the analysis of multivariate data'...Her summary continues to work just fine for this new edition...This is a nice book to have around to loan to people who are just getting started in multivariate analysis. -Technometrics, Vol. 47, No. 3, August 2005