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The Factor analysis summarizes many variables by few factors and helps to understand the structure of a correlation matrix. It accounts for multi-collinearity among a large number of interrelated independent quantitative variables by grouping the variables into a few factors and reduces correlations.
In our case, we have countries as the units of observations. We have data on different aspects of these countries like population, density, percentage of people living in cities, religion, life expectancy, literacy rates, daily calorie intake, number of people affected from aids, fertility, death rates etc. Now, for the purpose of this lab we are taking LIFEXPF (Female Life Expectancy) as a dependent variable and running regression on that. However, before doing that we are running a factor analysis on other independent variables and grouping them into few factors and use these factor scores as independent variables for regression. This will help in reducing correlations among......

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