Social Research Methods

Social Research Methods

Understanding the psychological and social truth

#24 The Psychology of Writing a Thesis

#20 Factor Analysis

Factor analysis reduces complexity of data by extracting a few factors. It delivers underlying coordinates in an otherwise complicated set of variables. We use factor analysis for instance to understand the basic independent dimensions of personality.

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