The Application of Multiple Factor Analysis to Industrial Test Data

Abstract

The technique known as Multiple Factor Analysis is outlined and its relevance to problems of industrial physics is discussed. In particular, the method is applied to the analysis of a set of rheological and electrical tests on a set of plastics. Three "factors" are sufficient to account for all the observed relationships between the ten tests. Three numerical solutions have been evaluated, one involving non-orthogonal "factors" presenting the simplest solution for interpretation. All the solutions are linear transformations of one another. (See also the following paper.)