[Tutor] Factor Analysis

[Joel Goldstick]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Ali Torkamani <torkamani at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Tutors,
>
> Two quick questions:
>
> 1) Specifically, is there any built-in function for factor analysis is
> python?

It sure looks like there is:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Factor+analysis+python&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=ubuntu&channel=fs

It looks like MDP might do what you need
>
> 2) Generally how would you search, to find out if there exist an efficient
> python package for some specific task? (Google search usually results in
> many hardly-related false positives!)
>
> Thanks a bunch!
>
> A
>
>
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Joel Goldstick