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The '''Multiple Factor Analysis''' (MFA) is a factorial method<ref name="GreenacreBlasius2006">{{cite book|last1=Greenacre|first1=Michael|last2=Blasius|first2=Jorg|title=Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ZvYV1lfU5zIC&pg=PA352|accessdate=11 June 2014|date=2006-06-23|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9781420011319|pages=352–}}</ref> devoted to the study of tables in which a group of individuals is described by a set of variables (quantitative and / or qualitative) structured in groups. It may be seen as an extension of:
'''Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA)'''
 
The Multiple Factor Analysis is a factorial method<ref name="GreenacreBlasius2006">{{cite book|last1=Greenacre|first1=Michael|last2=Blasius|first2=Jorg|title=Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ZvYV1lfU5zIC&pg=PA352|accessdate=11 June 2014|date=2006-06-23|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9781420011319|pages=352–}}</ref> devoted to the study of tables in which a group of individuals is described by a set of variables (quantitative and / or qualitative) structured in groups. It may be seen as an extension of:
* [[Principal component analysis]] (PCA) when variables are quantitative,
* [[Multiple correspondence analysis]] (MCA) when variables are qualitative,