In recent years a number of new techniques have been developed in the Behavioural Sciences that have been
quickly adopted by Personnel Practitioners. However, one group of techniques originally developed by
Psychologists, which could well prove very useful for Personnel Practitioners, has instead been adopted by
the Market Research fraternity. This area is the field of multivariate statistical techniques.
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