방법 비교

	주성분 분석	요인 분석	계층적 군집화	라쏘 회귀
분야	머신러닝	연구 통계	머신러닝	머신러닝
계열	Machine learning	Process / pipeline	Machine learning	Machine learning
기원 연도	2002	1931	1963	1996
창시자	Jolliffe, I.T. (textbook); Pearson & Hotelling (origins)	Louis Leon Thurstone	Ward, J. H.	Tibshirani, R.
유형	Unsupervised dimensionality reduction	Method	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)	Regularized linear regression (L1 penalty)
원전	Jolliffe, I.T. (2002). Principal Component Analysis (2nd ed.). Springer.	Thurstone, L. L. (1947). Multiple Factor Analysis. University of Chicago Press.	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.	Tibshirani, R. (1996). Regression Shrinkage and Selection via the Lasso. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 58(1), 267–288.
별칭	Temel Bileşenler Analizi (PCA), PCA, principal components analysis, Karhunen-Loève transform	EFA, CFA, latent variable modeling	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering	LASSO Regresyonu, lasso, L1-regularized regression, L1 regularization
관련	3	3	4	4
요약	Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is an unsupervised dimensionality-reduction method — given its modern textbook treatment by Ian Jolliffe (2002) — that compresses high-dimensional data into fewer dimensions while preserving the maximum possible variance. It re-expresses correlated variables as a small set of uncorrelated principal components ordered by how much of the data's variation each one captures.	Factor analysis is a statistical technique for identifying latent (unobserved) dimensions underlying observed variables, developed by Louis Leon Thurstone in the 1930s and formalized by Jöreskog (1969). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) discovers unknown factor structure from data; confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) tests hypothesized relationships between observed and latent variables. Essential in psychometrics (test development), organizational research (measuring constructs like leadership style), and biomedicine (identifying disease subtypes), factor analysis reduces dimensionality while revealing conceptual organization in multivariate data.	Hierarchical clustering is an unsupervised method that groups observations into nested clusters and draws the result as a dendrogram, so the number of clusters need not be fixed in advance. Its agglomerative form rests on the objective-function grouping criterion introduced by Joe Ward in 1963.	Lasso regression, introduced by Robert Tibshirani in 1996, is a linear regression method that adds an L1 penalty to the loss so that it shrinks coefficients and performs variable selection at the same time, producing a sparse model. By driving some coefficients exactly to zero it keeps only the predictors that matter.