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