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	تحلیل مسیر استوار (Robust Path Analysis)	تحلیل میانجیگری
حوزه	آمار	آمار
خانواده	Latent structure	Hypothesis test
سال پیدایش	1998	1986
پدیدآور	Yuan & Bentler (robust SEM/path framework); Huber (M-estimation foundation)	Baron & Kenny
نوع	Causal path modeling with robust estimation	Indirect effects / path test
منبع بنیادین	Yuan, K.-H. & Bentler, P. M. (1998). Robust mean and covariance structure analysis. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 51(1), 63–88.	Baron, R. M. & Kenny, D. A. (1986). The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51(6), 1173–1182.
نام‌های دیگر	robust PA, path analysis with robust standard errors, robust causal path modeling, robust structural path modeling	indirect effects analysis, path-based mediation, PROCESS macro mediation, Aracılık Analizi (Mediation / PROCESS)
مرتبط	6	5
خلاصه	Robust path analysis applies robust estimation — such as sandwich standard errors or M-estimation — to path models that specify directed causal relationships among observed variables. It preserves valid inference about path coefficients and indirect effects when data violate normality, contain outliers, or exhibit heteroscedasticity that would distort conventional standard errors.	Mediation analysis is a statistical procedure that tests whether the effect of an independent variable X on an outcome Y operates wholly or partly through a third variable M, called the mediator. Formalised by Baron and Kenny in 1986, it decomposes the total effect of X on Y into a direct path (c′) and an indirect path (a × b), quantifying how much of the relationship is carried by the mediating mechanism.