Analysis of Variance

  Essentially corresponds to a determination of the fluctuations observed in a sample, and their dependencies. The terminology in some textbooks for statisticians is somewhat different from the one used by engineers. Training samples are called control samples , interrelations between variables are found by factor analysis, and the analysis of variance (ANOVA) appears under different names as the accents are set differently, like one-way and two-way ANOVA, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), multivariate multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), discriminant analysis , etc. For further reading, e.g. [Edwards93].