Which of the following sentences regarding the similarities of factor analysis and PCA is false?
A. Both factor analysis and PCA are linear models in which loadings are used as weights.
B. Unlike PCA, factor analysis contains an error term.
C. Both PCA and exploratory factor analysis take advantage of ‘rotation’.
D. In both PCA and factor analysis we predict components from measured variables.
Answer: D
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