[Tutor] Factor Analysis

2012-07-05 Thread Ali Torkamani
Dear Tutors, Two quick questions: 1) Specifically, is there any built-in function for factor analysis is python? 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*

Re: [Tutor] Factor Analysis

2012-07-05 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Ali Torkamani torkam...@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:

Re: [Tutor] Factor Analysis

2012-07-05 Thread bob gailer
On 7/5/2012 12:16 PM, Ali Torkamani wrote: 1) Specifically, is there any built-in function for factor analysis is python? No built-in, but take a look at the SAGE project, which is an open-source alterative to Magma / Maple / Mathematica / Matlab: http://www.sagemath.org/ Sage is a

Re: [Tutor] Factor Analysis

2012-07-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Ali Torkamani wrote: 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!) Start with PyPI, also known as the CheeseShop. http://pypi.python.org/pypi It's