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'''Multiple factor analysis (MFA)''' is a [[Factorial experiment|factorial]] method<ref name="GreenacreBlasius2006">{{cite book|last1=Greenacre|first1=Michael|last2=Blasius|first2=Jorg|author-link2=Jörg Blasius|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,