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DFA may refer to:

Business

  • Dairy Farmers of America, a national milk marketing cooperative in the US
  • Design For All (product line), a brand produced for the Target Corporation

Education

  • Doctor of Fine Arts, an academic degree
  • John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School ("Davidson Fine Arts"), in Augusta, Georgia, U.S.

Arts and entertainment

Film

  • Danmarks Film Akademi, local name for the Danish Film Academy

Music

  • Death from Above 1979, a Toronto-based Canadian alternative rock duo
  • DFA (Italian rock band), an Italian progressive rock band from Verona, Italy
  • DFA Records, an independent record label and production team

Sport

  • Darwin Football Association, an Australian rules football league in Tasmania
  • Designated for assignment, a type of player transaction in Major League Baseball
  • Dominica Football Association, the governing body of football in Dominica

Finance

  • Dimensional Fund Advisors, in finance
  • Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a US federal law signed in 2010
  • Dynamic financial analysis, in finance

Government and politics

  • Democracy for America, a progressive political action committee in the United States
  • Department of Foreign Affairs, an executive office of a sovereign state that helps form its foreign policy
  • Partnership for a Drug-Free America, a nonprofit organization

Mathematics, science, and technology

Computing

  • Data-flow analysis, a technique for gathering information about the possible set of values calculated at various points in a computer program
  • Deterministic finite automaton, a finite state machine accepting finite strings of symbols
  • Differential fault analysis, in cryptography, a type of side channel attack
  • Dual factor authentication, a method of computer access control

Engineering

  • Design for All (design philosophy), a design philosophy
  • Design for assembly, manufacturing improvement to allow faster or automated assembly or assembly with fewer parts

Science

  • Descent from antiquity, the process of establishing a generation-by-generation descent of living persons
  • Direct fluorescent antibody, a medical test
  • Humid continental climate in climate classification (Dfa), with hot summers and cold winters and ample precipitation in all seasons

Statistics

  • Detrended fluctuation analysis, a variation of the Hurst Exponent technique, used in the analysis of fractal time series
  • Discriminant function analysis, a classification procedure