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Welcome to FactoMineR: 

a package dedicated to Factor Analysis and Data Mining with R,
developed by F. Husson* , S. Lê*, J. Josse* and J. Mazet.

*Applied mathematics department of Agrocampus Rennes                                            

News: useR!2008 tutorials

News: FAQ (Questions about FactoMineR and interesting functions to use: new functions, new developpments)

You can download the slides of the SFDS and SSC conference: slides

The FactoMineR package deals with multivariate approach.

  • it performs classical methods such as Principal Components Analysis (PCA), Correspondence analysis (CA), Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and advanced methods;
  • it allows to have supplementary informations (individuals, variables, ...);
  • it gives a geometrical point of view and a lot of graphs;
  • it gives a lot of helps to interpret (automatic description of the dimension, indicators, ...)
  • it takes into account a structure on the data (structure on the variables, hierarchy on the variables, structure on the individuals);
  • a GUI is available.

You can have a description of FactoMiner in the paper: FactoMineR: an R package for multivariate analysis in Journal of Statistical Software.

MFA, presentation and example