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factorist

factorist noun: a statistician who uses factor analysis.

Noun

factorist (plural factorists)

  1. A statistician who uses factor analysis.
    • The question of when to stop factoring is one of the major points of controversy in factor analysis, and the criticisms which one factorist may direct against the work of another quite commonly deal with charges of overfactorization and underfactorization.1959, Solomon Diamond, Information and error, pages 224–225

Forms of factorist

pluralfactorists

Origin of factorist

From factor + -ist.

Questions about factorist

What does factorist mean?
Factorist means a statistician who uses factor analysis.
What part of speech is factorist?
Factorist is a noun.
What is the plural of factorist?
The plural of factorist is factorists.

Words near factorist in the dictionary

  1. factorisations
  2. factorise
  3. factorised
  4. factorises
  5. factorising
  6. factorist
  7. factorists
  8. factorizabilities
  9. factorizability
  10. factorizable
  11. factorization

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