November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 57m
English
Chapter 4
This chapter is the first devoted to multiple factor analysis (MFA). MFA is applied to tables in which a set of individuals is described by several sets of variables. The key points of this method are dealt with in succession over four chapters. The first aims to balance the groups in an overall analysis by weighting the variables. This characteristic of MFA is vital, in the sense that it is the source of many properties of this method.
In order to keep things simple, we here deal with standardised quantitative variables. As the table to be analysed is an individuals x variables table, the two main issues associated with it are that of principal component analysis (PCA), that is to say:
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