DFA

DFA may refer to:

Business

• Dairy Farmers of America, in agriculture
• Design For All, 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

Engineering

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

Entertainment

Gaming

• Death From Above, a jump-jet attack tactic in the BattleTech game universe
• Double Fine Adventure, working title of the point-and-click adventure game Broken Age

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

Sports

• Darwin Football Association, an Australian rules football league in Tasmania
• Designated for assignment in 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

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 with hot summer (designated Dfa), in climate classification

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