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	Phân tích thành phần chính	Phân tích nhân tố	Phân cụm phân cấp
Lĩnh vực	Học máy	Thống kê nghiên cứu	Học máy
Họ	Machine learning	Process / pipeline	Machine learning
Năm ra đời	2002	1931	1963
Người khởi xướng	Jolliffe, I.T. (textbook); Pearson & Hotelling (origins)	Louis Leon Thurstone	Ward, J. H.
Loại	Unsupervised dimensionality reduction	Method	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)
Công trình gốc	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.
Tên gọi khác	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
Liên quan	3	3	4
Tóm tắt	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.