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	Factor Analysis	การจัดกลุ่มแบบ K-means	การวิเคราะห์องค์ประกอบหลัก
สาขาวิชา	สถิติการวิจัย	การเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง	การเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Machine learning	Machine learning
ปีกำเนิด	1931	1967 (formalized 1982)	2002
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Louis Leon Thurstone	MacQueen, J. B.; Lloyd, S. P.	Jolliffe, I.T. (textbook); Pearson & Hotelling (origins)
ประเภท	Method	Partitional clustering	Unsupervised dimensionality reduction
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Thurstone, L. L. (1947). Multiple Factor Analysis. University of Chicago Press.	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129–137.	Jolliffe, I.T. (2002). Principal Component Analysis (2nd ed.). Springer.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	EFA, CFA, latent variable modeling	k-means clustering, Lloyd's algorithm, k-means partitioning, hard k-means	Temel Bileşenler Analizi (PCA), PCA, principal components analysis, Karhunen-Loève transform
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	3	4	3
สรุป	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.	K-means is a classic unsupervised partitional clustering algorithm that divides a dataset into K non-overlapping groups by iteratively assigning each observation to its nearest centroid and updating centroids as the mean of their assigned points. It is one of the most widely used exploratory tools in machine learning and data analysis.	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.