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ABE, T., SUZUKI, M., MORITSUKA, T. and BOTAN, Y. Statistical Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis in the Etiology of Climacteric Symptoms. Tohoku J. exp. Med., 1984, 143 (4), 481-489 - Factor analysis and cluster analysis were applied to a set of 17 climacteric symptoms data obtained from 194 premenopausal and postmenopausal women. Six distinct factors were extracted and the women were divided into 7 groups by hierarchical cluster analysis in terms of their factor scores. Only one representative factor was identified in 3 groups out of the 7. These 3 groups including 87 women were tentatively designated as vasomotor symptom, neurotic, and sensory disturbance groups. These results confirmed statistically that at least 3 simple etiological factors exist among climacteric symptoms.
