مجلة التربية والعلم (Sep 2012)

Application of factor analysis and cluster analysis to the standard consumer prices in Iraq: a comparative study

  • Marwan Dabdoub,
  • Nour Sayala

DOI
https://doi.org/10.33899/edusj.2012.59216
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 3
pp. 163 – 179

Abstract

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Abstract Factor analysis may be considered as a classifier analysis and mostly does the same function as cluster analysis. Cluster analysis and factor analysis are applied to the standard prices of certain nine consumer goods during twelve months in 2005. The results concluded from both analyses are the same.

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