Brian Beers is a digital editor, writer, Emmy-nominated producer, and content expert with 15+ years of experience writing about corporate finance & accounting, fundamental analysis, and investing.

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 ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three ...

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 ...