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, U.S.

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'' * “Dart Farm Ace”, a strategy in the online PvP game Bloons TD Battles

Music

Death from Above 1979 Death from Above 1979 (also known as Death from Above) 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, ''You're a ...

, 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, 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 Dynamic financial analysis (DFA) is a simulation approach that looks at an insurance enterprise's risks holistically as opposed to traditional actuarial analysis, which analyzes risks individually. Specifically, DFA reveals the dependencies of haza ...

, 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 direct fluorescent antibody (DFA or dFA), also known as "direct immunofluorescence", is an antibody that has been tagged in a direct fluorescent antibody test. Its name derives from the fact that it directly tests the presence of an antigen with ...

, 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 Linear discriminant analysis (LDA), normal discriminant analysis (NDA), or discriminant function analysis is a generalization of Fisher's linear discriminant, a method used in statistics and other fields, to find a linear combination of features ...

, a classification procedure {{disambiguation