DFA may refer to:

Business

Dairy Farmers of America Dairy Farmers of America Inc. (DFA) is a national milk marketing cooperative in the United States. DFA markets members' raw milk and sells milk and derivative products (dairy products, food components, ingredients and shelf-stable dairy product ...

, in agriculture * Design For All, produced for the Target Corporation

Education

Doctor of Fine Arts Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA) is a professional doctoral degree in fine arts. It may also be awarded as an honorary degree. Description Doctoral programmes leading to DFAs in the UK are of equivalent level to a PhD, with the same requirement to demon ...

, an academic degree *

John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School (DFA) is a public magnet school for the fine and performing arts located in downtown Augusta, Georgia, United States. It draws students in grades 6 through 12 throughout Richmond County. In addition to a ...

("Davidson Fine Arts"), in Augusta, Georgia, U.S.

Entertainment

Gaming

* “Dart Farm Ace”, a strategy in the online PvP game Bloons TD Battles * '' Diverse Filmmakers Alliance'' (DFA) * 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 Death from Above 1979 (also known as Death from Above or DFA 1979) is a Canadian rock duo consisting of bassist Jesse F. Keeler and drummer and vocalist Sebastien Grainger from Toronto, Ontario, formed in 2001. The band released their debut album ...

, a Toronto-based Canadian

alternative rock Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s w ...

duo * DFA (Italian rock band), an Italian progressive rock band from Verona, Italy *

DFA Records DFA Records is an American independent record label based in New York City. The label was originally founded in 2001 by Tim Goldsworthy, musician James Murphy (electronic musician), James Murphy, and manager Jonathan Galkin. Goldsworthy and Mur ...

, an independent record label and production team

Sports

* Darwin Football Association, an Australian rules football league in Tasmania *

Designated for assignment Designated for assignment (DFA) is a contractual term used in Major League Baseball (MLB). A player who is designated for assignment is immediately removed from the team's 40-man roster, after which the team must, within seven days, return the pla ...

, a type of player transaction in Major League Baseball *

Dominica Football Association The Dominica Football Association is the governing body of football in Dominica. The Dominica national football team is the national team of Dominica and is controlled by the Dominica Football Association. The national league of Dominica is the ...

, the governing body of football in Dominica

Finance

Dimensional Fund Advisors Dimensional Fund Advisors, L.P. (branded Dimensional abbreviated DFA) is a privately-owned investment firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. Dimensional was founded in Brooklyn in 1981 by David Booth, Rex Sinquefield and Larry Klotz. The company h ...

, in finance *

Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly referred to as Dodd–Frank, is a United States federal law that was enacted on July 21, 2010. The law overhauled financial regulation in the aftermath of the Great Reces ...

, 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 Data-flow analysis is a technique for gathering information about the possible set of values calculated at various points in a computer program. It forms the foundation for a wide variety of compiler optimizations and program verification techn ...

, a technique for gathering information about the possible set of values calculated at various points in a computer program *

Deterministic finite automaton In the theory of computation, a branch of theoretical computer science, a deterministic finite automaton (DFA)—also known as deterministic finite acceptor (DFA), deterministic finite-state machine (DFSM), or deterministic finite-state auto ...

, a finite state machine accepting finite strings of symbols * Differential fault analysis, in cryptography, a type of side channel attack *

Dual factor authentication Multi-factor authentication (MFA; two-factor authentication, or 2FA) is an electronic authentication method in which a user is granted access to a website or application only after successfully presenting two or more distinct types of evidence ...

Engineering

* Design for All, as a design philosophy *

Design for assembly Design for assembly (DFA) is a process by which products are designed with ease of assembly in mind. If a product contains fewer parts it will take less time to assemble, thereby reducing assembly costs. In addition, if the parts are provided with ...

, 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 A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...

in climate classification (Dfa), with hot summers and cold winters and ample precipitation in all seasons

Statistics

Detrended fluctuation analysis In stochastic processes, chaos theory and time series analysis, detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) is a method for determining the statistical self-affinity of a signal. It is useful for analysing time series that appear to be long-memory proc ...

, a variation of the Hurst Exponent technique, used in the analysis of fractal time series *

Discriminant function analysis Linear discriminant analysis (LDA), normal discriminant analysis (NDA), canonical variates analysis (CVA), or discriminant function analysis is a generalization of Fisher's linear discriminant, a method used in statistics and other fields, to fi ...

, a classification procedure {{disambiguation