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	تحلیل رگرسیون چندگانه	Factor Analysis
حوزه	آمار پژوهش	آمار پژوهش
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	1801	1931
پدیدآور	Carl Friedrich Gauss	Louis Leon Thurstone
نوع	Method	Method
منبع بنیادین	Draper, N. R., & Smith, H. (1966). Applied Regression Analysis. John Wiley & Sons.	Thurstone, L. L. (1947). Multiple Factor Analysis. University of Chicago Press.
نام‌های دیگر	MLR, multivariate regression, linear regression	EFA, CFA, latent variable modeling
مرتبط	4	3
خلاصه	Multiple regression analysis is a statistical method for modeling the relationship between a continuous dependent variable and two or more independent variables (predictors). Originating from Gauss's early 19th-century work and formalized by Draper and Smith (1966), it estimates linear equations predicting outcomes from multiple predictors while accounting for confounding relationships, making it indispensable in epidemiology, economics, psychology, and clinical research.	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.