Question: This question is about Principal Components Analysis (PCA)and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) by R programming. (a) If we want to evaluate following performance of several

This question is about Principal Components Analysis (PCA)and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) by R programming.

(a) If we want to evaluate following performance of several students based on the score of 5 lessons, please use Principal Components Analysis (PCA) to generate the evaluation method (with R prommaing codes). And please list out the ranking of the students based on this evaluation method.

(b) Can we apply Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) in aforementioned data? Please present the result and the conclusion (with R prommaing codes). What's the similarities and difference between these two methods? Why should we do the rotation in EFA but not in PCA?

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History (X1) Chinese (X2) English (X3) Physics (X4) Math (X5)
Student 1 99 94 93 100 100
Student 2 99 88 96 99 97
Student 3 100 98 81 96 100
Student 4 93 88 88 99 96
Student 5 100 91 72 96 78
Student 6 90 78 82 75 97
Student 7 75 73 88 97 89
Student 8 93 84 83 68 88
Student 9 87 73 60 76 84
Student 10 95 82 90 62 39
Student 11 76 72 43 67 78
Student 12 85 75 50 34 37

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