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Abstract

Many factors in life are complex and difficult to measure directly. Often add-up scores of separate aspects of the complex factors are used. However, add-up scores do not account for their relative importance, their interactions and differences in units. Factor analysis accounts all of this, but is, virtually, unused in clinical research.

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Cleophas, T.J., Zwinderman, A.H. (2013). Factor Analysis. In: Machine Learning in Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5824-7_14

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