Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Relating to factor analysis: Describes something that is connected to or involves the statistical method of factor analysis.
   • Being a product of factor analysis: Describes something that is derived or obtained as a result of performing factor analysis.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The researcher presented a factor analytic approach to understand personality traits.
  • These dimensions were identified through a factor analytic study of the survey data.
  • The factor analytic results confirmed the hypothesized structure of the test.

Advanced Usage

• "factor analytic techniques": The specific statistical procedures used in factor analysis.
  • The paper employed advanced factor analytic techniques to reduce the data dimensionality.
• "factor analytic model": A conceptual or mathematical model that underpins a factor analysis.
  • The validity of the factor analytic model was assessed using several fit indices.

Variants and Related Words

• Factor analysis (n): The statistical method itself, used to identify underlying relationships between measured variables.
  • Exploratory factor analysis is a common technique in social science research.
• Factor (n): In this context, an underlying latent variable or dimension identified through factor analysis.
  • The analysis extracted three main factors from the questionnaire items.

Synonyms

• Psychometric (adj): Pertaining to the measurement of mental capacities and processes, often involving factor analysis.
• Multivariate (adj): Involving multiple variables, a category which includes factor analytic methods.

Related Phrases

• "to run a factor analysis": To perform the statistical procedure.
  • We need to run a factor analysis on this correlation matrix.
• "factor loadings": The correlations between the original variables and the extracted factors, a key result of factor analytic procedures.
  • The factor loadings indicated which questions were most strongly associated with each factor.

Adjective

1. of or relating to or the product of factor analysis