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	تحلیل عاملی اکتشافی ترتیبی	تحلیل عاملی اکتشافی (EFA)
حوزه	روان‌سنجی	آمار
خانواده	Latent structure	Latent structure
سال پیدایش	1978–1984	—
پدیدآور	Bengt Muthén	—
نوع	Latent variable / dimension reduction	Latent variable / dimension reduction
منبع بنیادین	Flora, D. B. & Curran, P. J. (2004). An empirical evaluation of alternative methods of estimation for confirmatory factor analysis with ordinal data. Psychological Methods, 9(4), 466–491.	Fabrigar, L. R., Wegener, D. T., MacCallum, R. C. & Strahan, E. J. (1999). Evaluating the use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research. Psychological Methods, 4(3), 272–299.
نام‌های دیگر	ordinal factor analysis, polychoric EFA, categorical EFA, EFA for ordinal data	common factor analysis, açımlayıcı faktör analizi, factor analysis
مرتبط	5	4
خلاصه	Ordinal exploratory factor analysis discovers latent factors underlying a set of ordinal items — typically Likert scales — by computing polychoric correlations among the items and then applying a weighted least squares estimator. It avoids the distortions that arise when continuous EFA methods are naively applied to ordered categorical responses.	Exploratory factor analysis reduces a large set of observed variables into a smaller number of latent common factors. It is widely used in scale development and psychometrics to uncover the dimensional structure that underlies a set of correlated items, without specifying that structure in advance.