Factor analysis is a
A) form of experimental design in which the experimenter manipulates two or more independent variables but does not propose any specific hypotheses.
B) statistical technique that can be applied to a set of variables to identify clusters of variables that correlate with each other but that are relatively uncorrelated with the variables in the other clusters.
C) statistical analysis used to test hypotheses about which dimensions the items in a set of items will load on.
D) study in which the independent variable is manipulated but research participants are not randomly assigned to conditions of the independent variable.

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Factor analysis is a statistical technique used to identify clusters of variables that are highly correlated with each other but relatively uncorrelated with others. It can help identify underlying factors or dimensions that explain the common variance among a set of measured variables. It is often used in psychology and social sciences to explore relationships between latent variables and observed variables.

Factor Analysis Is a