Grounding

Multivariate Analysis Procedures: Capture intuitively by examples of purposes

Multiple Regression Analysis

Predicting the sales of products from their properties (qualities, appearances, price, and so on).

Clustering

Grouping people according to their personality traits.

Principal Component Analysis

Visualizing the distribution of data in a multidimensional space (which cannot be seen by us living 3-dimensioanl world) (Fig. 1).

Factor Analysis

Finding the latent psychological factors underlying manifest behavioral patterns (Fig. 2).

Three-Mode Component Analysis

Exploring the three mode structure of pictures by impressions by persons from the impressions that pictures give persons (Fig. 3).

Multidimensional Scaling

Drawing a map of people from their relations．

Path Analysis

Modeling the causal relationships among the phenomena in the world.