השוואת שיטות

	מיפוי רב-ממדי חסין (Robust MDS)	ניתוח גורמים חקרני חסין
תחום	סטטיסטיקה	פסיכומטריה
משפחה	Latent structure	Latent structure
שנת המקור	2002 (robust extension); 1952 (classical MDS)	2000–2003
הוגה השיטה	Hubert, Arabie, and Meulman (robust extensions); classical MDS by Torgerson (1952)	Pison, Rousseeuw, Filzmoser, and Croux; Yuan and Bentler (parallel streams)
סוג	Dimensionality reduction / proximity scaling	Latent variable / dimension reduction (robust)
מקור מכונן	Hubert, L., Arabie, P. & Meulman, J. (2002). Linear unidimensional scaling in the L2-norm: Basic optimization methods using SMACOF. Journal of Classification, 19(2), 303–327.	Yuan, K.-H., & Bentler, P. M. (2000). Robust mean and covariance structure analysis through iteratively reweighted least squares. Psychometrika, 65(1), 43–58.
כינויים	Robust MDS, outlier-resistant MDS, robust proximity scaling	robust EFA, robust factor analysis, outlier-resistant factor analysis, EFA with robust estimation
קשורות	4	4
תקציר	Robust multidimensional scaling recovers a low-dimensional spatial map from a matrix of pairwise dissimilarities while resisting distortion caused by outlying or erroneous proximity values. By replacing squared-error loss with a robust loss function or down-weighting suspect pairs, it produces a configuration that faithfully represents the bulk of the data even when some distances are grossly atypical.	Robust exploratory factor analysis discovers the latent factor structure of a set of items using estimation methods that are resistant to outliers and violations of multivariate normality. It applies the same measurement model as standard EFA but replaces classical covariance estimation with robust counterparts — such as minimum covariance determinant or iteratively reweighted least squares — so that a small fraction of atypical cases cannot distort the recovered factor loadings.