השוואת שיטות

	ניתוח גורמים גישוש (EFA)	אלפא של קרונבך (ניתוח מהימנות)	מודל משוואות מבניות (SEM)
תחום	סטטיסטיקה	סטטיסטיקה	סטטיסטיקה
משפחה	Latent structure	Latent structure	Latent structure
שנת המקור	—	1951	1970
הוגה השיטה	—	Lee J. Cronbach	Karl Jöreskog (LISREL framework, 1970s)
סוג	Latent variable / dimension reduction	Reliability / internal consistency coefficient	Latent variable / causal modeling
מקור מכונן	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.	Cronbach, L. J. (1951). Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests. Psychometrika, 16(3), 297–334.	Hair, J. F., Black, W. C., Babin, B. J. & Anderson, R. E. (2019). Multivariate Data Analysis (8th ed.). Cengage Learning. ISBN: 978-1473756540
כינויים	common factor analysis, açımlayıcı faktör analizi, factor analysis	coefficient alpha, alpha reliability, internal consistency reliability, Güvenilirlik Analizi (Cronbach Alpha)	Yapısal Eşitlik Modellemesi (SEM), structural equation modelling, covariance structure analysis, latent variable modeling
קשורות	4	4	5
תקציר	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.	Cronbach's alpha is a coefficient of internal consistency that quantifies the degree to which a set of items on a scale measures the same underlying construct. Introduced by Lee J. Cronbach in 1951, it remains the most widely reported reliability index in social-science, health, and educational research.	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.