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S1E22: Factor Analysis -- The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

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Is Principal Component Analysis Really Factor Analysis?

spearmen: I like a lot of what you said, but i'm supposed to disagree with you. Spearmen invented factor analysis while he was in graduate school. Factor analysis isn't one thing; it's a collection of tools that go by the same name. It can be argued whether or not principal component analysis is factor analysis at all.

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