factor analysis

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-002383",
  "term": "factor analysis",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "A set of statistical methods for analyzing the correlations among several variables in order to estimate the number of fundamental dimensions that underlie the observed data and to describe and measure those dimensions. It is used frequently in the development of scoring systems for rating scales and questionnaires.",
  "synonyms": [
    "factorial analyses",
    "factorial analysis",
    "multifactorial analysis",
    "principal axis factoring",
    "statistical factor analysis"
  ],
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "statistical analysis",
    "Delphi method",
    "questionnaires",
    "multivariate analysis"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Medical Subject Headings 2015",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "análisis factorial"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/factor-analysis/"
}