Practical Multivariate Analysis (6th ed.): by Abdelmonem Afifi, Susanne May, Robin Donatello, and Virginia A. Clark. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman and Hall/CRC, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020, xv + 418 pp., $99.95, ISBN: 978-1-138-70222-6.

The book is organized in two parts and eighteen chapters: the first part considers "Preparation for Analysis" (Chapters 1-6), and the second part is called "Regression Analysis" (Chapters 7-18) although it covers many other related methods as well. Added in this edition new Chapter 4 discusses various methods of data visualization with specific tools for different types of bivariate and multivariate variables, and gives multiple illustrations in graphs and figures. Chapter 7 presents simple linear regression, its residual errors, confidence intervals, parameter hypotheses testing, correlation, fixed predictor variable, bivariate regression as the conditional distribution. [Extracted from the article]