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	Ανάπτυξη Κλίμακας με Βεβαιοκρατικές Μεθόδους	Επαληθευτική Παραγοντική Ανάλυση (Confirmatory Factor Analysis - CFA)
Πεδίο	Ψυχομετρία	Ψυχομετρία
Οικογένεια	Latent structure	Latent structure
Έτος προέλευσης	1990s–2000s	1969
Δημιουργός	Harold Jeffreys, expanded into psychometrics by Mislevy and colleagues	Karl Gustav Jöreskog
Τύπος	Bayesian probabilistic scale construction	Hypothesis-testing latent variable model
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	De Ayala, R. J. (2009). The Theory and Practice of Item Response Theory. Guilford Press. ISBN: 978-1593858698	Jöreskog, K. G. (1969). A general approach to confirmatory maximum likelihood factor analysis. Psychometrika, 34(2), 183–202.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Bayesian psychometric scale construction, Bayesian measurement modeling, Bayesian item development, BSD	CFA, confirmatory FA, measurement model, restricted factor analysis
Συναφείς	5	4
Σύνοψη	Bayesian scale development applies Bayesian statistical inference to the construction and evaluation of psychometric scales. Rather than relying on single point estimates of item and person parameters, it produces full posterior distributions that quantify uncertainty, incorporate prior knowledge, and support principled decisions about item retention, reliability, and validity in small or complex samples.	Confirmatory factor analysis tests a researcher-specified factor structure against observed data. Unlike exploratory approaches, the researcher decides in advance which indicators load on which latent factor, and the model is evaluated by how closely the implied covariance matrix reproduces the sample covariance matrix. CFA is central to scale validation, construct validity assessment, and measurement invariance testing.