#20 Factor Analysis

Social Research Methods by Armin Trost

Dec 2, 202024:56Science & Medicine

Factor analysis reduces complexity of data by extracting a few factors. It delivers underlying coordinates in an otherwise complicated set of variables. We use factor analysis for instance to understand the basic indepen...

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