Term: factor analysis: any of several methods for reducing correlational data to a smaller number of dimensions or factors; beginning with a correlation matrix a small number of components or factors are extracted that are regarded as the basic variables that account for the interrelations observed in the data
Candidate hypernym: correlational analysis: the use of statistical correlation to evaluate the strength of the relations between variables → 1
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Candidate hypernym: loved one: a person who you love, usually a member of your family → 0
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Candidate hypernym: linkage: an associative relation → 0
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