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	Πολυμεταβλητή Ανάλυση Συνδιακύμανσης (MANCOVA)	Διακριτική Ανάλυση	Ανάλυση Διακύμανσης Πολλών Μεταβλητών (MANOVA)
Πεδίο	Στατιστική	Στατιστική	Στατιστική
Οικογένεια	Hypothesis test	Latent structure	Hypothesis test
Έτος προέλευσης	1970	1936	1932
Δημιουργός	Extension of MANOVA and ANCOVA traditions; consolidated in multivariate textbooks by the 1970s–1980s	Ronald A. Fisher	Samuel Stanley Wilks (Wilks' Lambda, 1932); Roy, Hotelling, Pillai (mid-20th c.)
Τύπος	Parametric multivariate mean comparison with covariate control	Supervised classification and dimension reduction	Parametric multivariate mean comparison
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Tabachnick, B. G. & Fidell, L. S. (2019). Using Multivariate Statistics (7th ed.). Pearson. ISBN: 978-0134790541	Fisher, R. A. (1936). The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems. Annals of Eugenics, 7(2), 179–188.	Tabachnick, B.G. & Fidell, L.S. (2013). Using Multivariate Statistics (6th ed.). Pearson. ISBN: 978-0205849574
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	MANCOVA, multivariate ANCOVA, MANOVA with covariates, MANCOVA — Çok Değişkenli Kovaryans Analizi	LDA, Fisher discriminant analysis, discriminant function analysis, canonical discriminant analysis	Multivariate ANOVA, Çok Değişkenli ANOVA (MANOVA)
Συναφείς	5	4	5
Σύνοψη	MANCOVA (Multivariate Analysis of Covariance) is a parametric hypothesis test that simultaneously compares two or more groups on multiple continuous dependent variables while statistically controlling for one or more covariates. It extends MANOVA by incorporating covariate adjustment, a tradition consolidated in multivariate statistical methodology by the 1970s and authoritatively documented by Tabachnick and Fidell (2019).	Discriminant analysis finds linear combinations of predictor variables that best separate two or more known groups. It is used both to understand which predictors distinguish the groups and to classify new observations into those groups with minimum error.	MANOVA is a parametric hypothesis test that simultaneously compares group means across multiple continuous dependent variables, controlling the inflation of Type I error that would result from running separate ANOVAs. Key multivariate test statistics — Wilks' Lambda, Pillai's Trace, Hotelling-Lawley Trace, and Roy's Greatest Root — were developed between the 1930s and 1950s, with Wilks' Lambda formalised by Samuel Stanley Wilks in 1932.