The factors of production are the inputs used to produce a good or service in order to produce income. Economists define four factors of production: land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship. These ...

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Critical factors in any wholesale business depend on the individual product lines being wholesaled and to the type of retailers that buy those products. John F. Rockart of MIT's Sloan School of ...

Let's use this classical statistics technique -- and some R, of course -- to get to some of the latent variables hiding in your data. Factor analysis is a classical statistics technique that examines ...