The results of studying patterns in an array of economic data by methods of multidimensional statistical analysis

The article presents the results of studying patterns in the array of economic data obtained using multiple regression analysis and factor analysis. The results of multiple regression analysis of data were taken from a previously published article, which we selected among many similar works. Then a factor analysis was carried out using the same set of initial data that was used by the author of the mentioned article to conduct multiple correlation analysis. It turned out that factor analysis and multiple regression analysis give almost identical results in almost all positions. The article notes that in factor analysis (unlike regression analysis) there is no concept of "resultant indicator", i.e. all variables have the same status.