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Multifactorial vs Multivariate - What's the difference?

multifactorial | multivariate |

As adjectives the difference between multifactorial and multivariate

is that multifactorial is involving, or controlled by multiple factors while multivariate is having or involving multiple variables.

As a noun multivariate is

a vector, each of whose elements is a variate.

multifactorial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Involving, or controlled by multiple factors
  • (genetics, of a trait) Involving multiple genetic and/or environmental factors

    • multivariate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having or involving multiple variables.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) A vector, each of whose elements is a variate.

    • See also

    * variate * bivariate * univariate * * multivariate in Wolfram - Mathworld ----