When Following Up a Significant MANOVA, What Is the Advantage

Multiple Choice

When following up a significant MANOVA, what is the advantage of conducting discriminant function analysis over separate ANOVAs?

A) Discriminant function analysis keeps the effects of each outcome variable independent.
B) Discriminant function analysis is true to the ethos of MANOVA.
C) Discriminant function analysis looks at the outcome variables as independent entities, not as a linear combination.
D) The overall multivariate test protects against inflated Type I error rates.