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Abstract— This is a literature review that aimed to find 2004).According to Hair et al., (2009) multivariate
articles that exemplify and describe the use of techniques are popular because they allow organizations
multivariate analysis in different fields of Forest to create knowledge, thereby improving their decision -
Agricultural Sciences, considering effective practices making. Multivariate analysis refers to all the statistical
using multivariate statistical techniques for the techniques that simultaneously analyze multiple
simultaneous processing of data. For data collection were measurements on individuals or objects under
selected for the meta-analysis of 70 technical articles of investigation.
which 54 were employed in the study directed to the use of For Gerhardt, et al., 2001 multivariate analysis
multivariate techniques applied in the areas of comes to data through a set of statistical techniques
agricultural sciences. The results showed thatstudies considering measures many variables simultaneously.
directed to certain areas within the Forest Agricultural And to obtain such results some multivariate methods are
Sciences exhibit some regularity in the use of multivariate applied to data depending on the research objectives,since
analysis, and most application analyzes were more usual it is known that an exploratory data analysis, aims to
as the Cluster Analysis (AA) and Principal Component generate hypotheses that is exactly the goal of the
Analysis (PCA). Thus the use of multivariate analysis multivariate analysis (VICINI, 2005).
studies and evaluations of experiments in Agricultural Multivariate analysis is a vast field in which
Sciences proved to great value to allow greater clarity even experienced statistical move carefully, because this
and better interpretation of dealing with complex is a new area of science, much is yet to be discovered.
phenomena. The art of the use of multivariate analysis is the choice of
Keywords— Multivariate Analysis, Multivariate the most appropriate options to detect the standards
Methods, Forest Agricultural Sciences. expected in the data (MAGNUSSON, 2003).
The purpose of their application may be to
I. INTRODUCTION reduce data or structural simplification, sort and group, to
Statistically data analysis is classified into investigate the dependency between variables, prediction
univariate or multivariate, i.e., it variables alone or jointly and develop hypotheses and test them (JOHNSON;
respectively. According VICINI, 2005 until the advent of WICHERN, 1992).
computers the data were treated only in isolation, and Multivariate techniques can meet the specific
when a phenomenon depends on many variables such interests of a forestry company or a research institution,
analysis became unfeasible. aiming at a particular interest, apart from a property or set
Multivariate analysis corresponds to a large of properties. Thus, this study aims to quantify and clarify
number of methods and techniques that utilize, what and how the main tools of multivariate analysis
simultaneously, all variables in the theoretical applied in various areas of study of forest agricultural
interpretation of the set of obtained data (Neto, sciences are used, reviewing a number of literature
Fig.1: Grouping according to the quality of wood for the production of charcoal, obtained by simple connection method to
use the Euclidean distance.
Source: CASTRO et al, 2013.
It is observed in Figure 1 that the genetic to form the first group. So then come variables 10:09, and
material of 11:08 have the greatest similarity dendrogram, after 1 and 5, and so on, the variables are grouped in
by having the smallest Euclidean distance being such as descending similarity order, ie 12 variable formed the last