Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Επαρκής Ανάλυση Παραγόντων	Ανάλυση Παραγόντων	Εκτίμηση Εύρωστων Συνδιακυμάνσεων (MCD)
Πεδίο	Στατιστική	Ερευνητική Στατιστική	Στατιστική
Οικογένεια	Regression model	Process / pipeline	Regression model
Έτος προέλευσης	2003	1931	1999
Δημιουργός	Pison, Rousseeuw, Filzmoser & Croux	Louis Leon Thurstone	Rousseeuw; Rousseeuw & Van Driessen (Fast-MCD)
Τύπος	Robust latent-factor model	Method	Robust multivariate location-scatter estimator
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Pison, G., Rousseeuw, P. J., Filzmoser, P., & Croux, C. (2003). Robust factor analysis. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 84(1), 145-172.	Thurstone, L. L. (1947). Multiple Factor Analysis. University of Chicago Press.	Rousseeuw, P. J. & Van Driessen, K. (1999). A Fast Algorithm for the Minimum Covariance Determinant Estimator. Technometrics, 41(3), 212-223.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	robust factor analysis, outlier-resistant factor analysis, MCD-based factor analysis, Robust Faktör Analizi	EFA, CFA, latent variable modeling	minimum covariance determinant, MCD estimator, robust covariance estimation, Robust Kovaryans Tahmini (MCD)
Συναφείς	5	3	4
Σύνοψη	Robust Factor Analysis recovers the latent factor structure of multivariate continuous data while resisting the distorting pull of outliers. Introduced by Pison, Rousseeuw, Filzmoser and Croux (2003), it replaces the classical sample covariance with a robust estimator such as the Minimum Covariance Determinant (MCD) or an S-estimator before extracting factors.	Factor analysis is a statistical technique for identifying latent (unobserved) dimensions underlying observed variables, developed by Louis Leon Thurstone in the 1930s and formalized by Jöreskog (1969). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) discovers unknown factor structure from data; confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) tests hypothesized relationships between observed and latent variables. Essential in psychometrics (test development), organizational research (measuring constructs like leadership style), and biomedicine (identifying disease subtypes), factor analysis reduces dimensionality while revealing conceptual organization in multivariate data.	Robust Covariance via the Minimum Covariance Determinant (MCD) estimates a multivariate mean vector and covariance matrix that are not distorted by outliers. It was made practical by the Fast-MCD algorithm of Rousseeuw and Van Driessen (1999), building on Rousseeuw's earlier work on robust estimation.