The Purpose of Factor Analysis Can Be Best Described As

question 15

Multiple Choice

The purpose of factor analysis can be best described as:

• A)data simplification by summarizing the information contained in a large number of variables into summary measures.
• B)presenting the relationship between multiple categorical measures in a low-dimensional diagram.
• C)assessing the significance of group differences across many metric dependent variables simultaneously.
• D)assessing the degree of correlation of a group of categorical measures.

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