Factor analysis

Factor analysis is addressed in our Chapter 4. Factor analysis graphs may look strange; it certainly takes some time to learn how to read them (to that effect, you should re-read our chapter and look into our suggestions for further reading). Still, many historians want to use factor analysis, once they have understood that it is an exploratory method that allows them to get a general idea of “everything that is in their dataset,” and to create typologies. (Perhaps this is also true in other disciplines, but the words “exploratory”, “having a look at everything at once,” and “typology” seem to have a special appeal for historians – ourselves included)

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