Vertaile menetelmiä

	Mittausinvarianssin testaus	Vahvistava faktorianalyysi (CFA)	Rakenteellinen yhtälömallinnus (SEM)
Tieteenala	Psykometriikka	Tilastotiede	Tilastotiede
Menetelmäperhe	Latent structure	Latent structure	Latent structure
Syntyvuosi	2000	1969	1970
Kehittäjä	Vandenberg & Lance	Karl Jöreskog	Karl Jöreskog (LISREL framework, 1970s)
Tyyppi	Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis procedure	Confirmatory latent variable model	Latent variable / causal modeling
Alkuperäislähde	Vandenberg, R. J., & Lance, C. E. (2000). A review and synthesis of the measurement invariance literature. Organizational Research Methods, 3(1), 4–70.	Brown, T. A. (2015). Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Applied Research (2nd ed.). The Guilford Press. ISBN: 978-1462515363	Hair, J. F., Black, W. C., Babin, B. J. & Anderson, R. E. (2019). Multivariate Data Analysis (8th ed.). Cengage Learning. ISBN: 978-1473756540
Rinnakkaisnimet	Factorial Invariance, Measurement Equivalence, Configural-Metric-Scalar Testing, Ölçüm Değişmezliği	Doğrulayıcı Faktör Analizi (CFA), confirmatory factor analysis, measurement model	Yapısal Eşitlik Modellemesi (SEM), structural equation modelling, covariance structure analysis, latent variable modeling
Liittyvät	3	4	5
Tiivistelmä	Measurement invariance testing is a sequence of nested confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) models that examines whether a psychological scale measures the same latent construct in the same way across distinct groups or time points. Systematized and popularized by Vandenberg and Lance (2000), the procedure tests a hierarchy of constraints — from identical factor patterns to identical item intercepts — so that researchers can justify meaningful group comparisons on latent means.	Confirmatory factor analysis tests whether a researcher-specified factor structure fits the observed data. Formalised by Karl Jöreskog in 1969, it is the measurement-model step within structural equation modelling and is the standard tool for validating the factorial structure of scales and questionnaires before comparing groups or estimating latent relationships.	Structural equation modeling is a multivariate statistical framework that simultaneously estimates a measurement model — relating observed indicators to latent constructs — and a structural model specifying directional or reciprocal relationships among those constructs. Rooted in the LISREL tradition developed by Karl Jöreskog in the 1970s, SEM is the standard tool for testing complex theoretical models in the social, behavioural, and management sciences.