Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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statistics | Yes | No | No | No |
factor analysis | Yes | No | No | No |
statistics (noun) | factor analysis (noun) |
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a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters | any of several methods for reducing correlational data to a smaller number of dimensions or factors; beginning with a correlation matrix a small number of components or factors are extracted that are regarded as the basic variables that account for the interrelations observed in the data |