Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun factor_analysis

1 sense of factor analysis

Sense 1
factor analysis -- (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)
       => correlational analysis -- (the use of statistical correlation to evaluate the strength of the relations between variables)