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== History ==
 
MFA was developed by Brigitte Escofier and Jérôme Pagès in the 1980s. It is at the heart of two books written by these authors:<ref>''Ibidem''</ref> and.<ref>Escofier Brigitte & Pagès Jérôme (2008). Analyses factorielles simples et multiples ; objectifs, méthodes et interprétation. Dunod, Paris. 318 p. {{ISBN|978-2-10-051932-3}}</ref> The MFA and its extensions (hierarchical MFA, MFA on contingency tables, etc.) are a research topic of applied mathematics laboratory Agrocampus ([http://math.agrocampus-ouest.fr LMA ²]) which published a book presenting basic methods of exploratory multivariate analysis.<ref>Husson F., Lê S. & Pagès J. (2009). Exploratory Multivariate Analysis by Example Using R. Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series, London. {{ISBN|978-2-7535-0938-2}}</ref>
 
== Software ==
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== External links ==
* [http://factominer.free.fr/ FactoMineR] A R software devoted to exploratory data analysis.
 
 
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