# PCA Output?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pca-output/22687>\
**Category:** Statistics\
**Created:** [April 3, 2019, 11:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pca-output/22687 "2019-04-03T11:13:22Z")\
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To support this request:

> …so better check that we don’t choose an approach/terminology which is only familiar to psychologists.

The use of the function from the _psych_ package is widespread and I would say it is common knowledge among R users.

> …ike factor analysis.

Factor analysis is also affected. The output of the model estimate is very similar.

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