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	آلفای کرونباخ مقاوم	تحلیل قابلیت اطمینان قوی
حوزه	روان‌سنجی	طراحی آزمایش
خانواده	Latent structure	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	2002–2016	1980s–1990s (integration formalized in engineering literature)
پدیدآور	Derived from Lee J. Cronbach (1951); robust variants formalized by Yuan & Bentler (2002) and Zhang & Yuan (2016)	Synthesized from Taguchi robust design and classical reliability theory (Kececioglu, Taguchi)
نوع	Robust reliability coefficient	Quantitative reliability engineering method
منبع بنیادین	Yuan, K.-H., & Bentler, P. M. (2002). On robustness of the normal-theory based asymptotic distributions of three reliability coefficient estimates. Psychometrika, 67(2), 251–268.	Kececioglu, D. (1991). Reliability Engineering Handbook (Vol. 1). Prentice Hall. ISBN: 978-0137720774
نام‌های دیگر	robust alpha, outlier-resistant Cronbach's alpha, robust internal consistency, robust coefficient alpha	RRA, reliability robustness analysis, uncertainty-aware reliability analysis, robust probabilistic reliability
مرتبط	3	4
خلاصه	Robust Cronbach's alpha adapts the classical internal consistency coefficient to data that violate the assumption of multivariate normality or contain influential outliers. By replacing the conventional sample covariance matrix with a robust counterpart, it yields a reliability estimate that is resistant to distortion by non-normal response distributions, contaminated observations, or small violations of model assumptions common in applied psychometric work.	Robust reliability analysis is an engineering method that combines classical reliability estimation with robustness principles to quantify and improve system dependability in the presence of parameter uncertainty and variability. Rather than assuming fixed input values, it propagates distributions of noise factors through a reliability model to produce probability-of-failure estimates that remain valid across a range of operating conditions and manufacturing tolerances.