Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Επαρκής Ανάλυση Παραγόντων	Ανάλυση Κύριων Συνιστωσών	Εκτίμηση Εύρωστων Συνδιακυμάνσεων (MCD)
Πεδίο	Στατιστική	Μηχανική Μάθηση	Στατιστική
Οικογένεια	Regression model	Machine learning	Regression model
Έτος προέλευσης	2003	2002	1999
Δημιουργός	Pison, Rousseeuw, Filzmoser & Croux	Jolliffe, I.T. (textbook); Pearson & Hotelling (origins)	Rousseeuw; Rousseeuw & Van Driessen (Fast-MCD)
Τύπος	Robust latent-factor model	Unsupervised dimensionality reduction	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.	Jolliffe, I.T. (2002). Principal Component Analysis (2nd ed.). Springer.	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	Temel Bileşenler Analizi (PCA), PCA, principal components analysis, Karhunen-Loève transform	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.	Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is an unsupervised dimensionality-reduction method — given its modern textbook treatment by Ian Jolliffe (2002) — that compresses high-dimensional data into fewer dimensions while preserving the maximum possible variance. It re-expresses correlated variables as a small set of uncorrelated principal components ordered by how much of the data's variation each one captures.	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.