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Factor Analysis (因素分析) This is something new to you. It is also very useful if you use survey as your tool for the thesis. So get ready … Factor analysis (FA) is a variable reduction technique. Very often we have a lot of variables and we need to know if they are all useful for some analysis purpose (such as regression). But do we need them all? Is it possible that some of them may actually be grouped together and be represented by one variable? For example, if you have the test scores of language (ex. Chinese and English) and analytical ability (ex. math and science), could it be poss