Terms Related to Principal Component Analysis

• Multivariate Analysis

  A set of techniques used when variation in several variables has to be studied simultaneously. In statistics, multivariate analysis is interpreted as any analytic method ...

• Factor Analysis

  A set of statistical methods for analyzing the correlations among several variables in order to estimate the number of fundamental dimensions that underlie the observed ...

• Discriminant Analysis

  A statistical analytic technique used with discrete dependent variables, concerned with separating sets of observed values and allocating new values. It is sometimes used instead ...

• Small-Area Analysis

  A method of analyzing the variation in utilization of health care in small geographic or demographic areas. It often studies, for example, the usage rates ...

• Statistical Factor Analysis

  A set of statistical methods for analyzing the correlations among several variables in order to estimate the number of fundamental dimensions that underlie the observed ...

• Small-Area Variation Analysis

  A method of analyzing the variation in utilization of health care in small geographic or demographic areas. It often studies, for example, the usage rates ...

• Dimorphous Leprosy

  A form of LEPROSY in which there are clinical manifestations of both principal types (lepromatous and tuberculoid). The disease may shift toward one of these ...