Factor Analysis

One of the oldest multivariate techniques, factor analysis is closely related to PCA and even confused by many for PCA. However, it serves a totally different purpose. Uncover hidden dimensions in your data.

Course Outline

The recommended duration for this course is 1 online session(s).

• Introduction to Factor Analysis & Historical Note
• The Principle of Latent Variables
• The Extraction of Latent Variables (Factors)
• Statistical Methods for Factor Extraction
• Enhancing Factor Interpretability with Rotations
• Software Packages
• Typical Software Outputs
• Interpretation
• Technical Issues
• Summary

Target Audience

This module is aimed at people information on several variables and who wish understand the underlying their dimensions.This course introduces the important ideas in statistics and data analysis. It assumes that participants either have no previous knowledge of statistics or that they have not used statistics for a long time.