Compară metode

	Analiza factorială	Analiza Componentelor Principale	Regresie Robustă
Domeniu	Statistică pentru cercetare	Învățare automată	Statistică
Familie	Process / pipeline	Machine learning	Regression model
Anul apariției	1931	2002	1964
Autorul original	Louis Leon Thurstone	Jolliffe, I.T. (textbook); Pearson & Hotelling (origins)	Peter J. Huber (M-estimation, 1964); Frank Hampel (influence function, 1974)
Tip	Method	Unsupervised dimensionality reduction	Regression with outlier resistance
Sursa seminală	Thurstone, L. L. (1947). Multiple Factor Analysis. University of Chicago Press.	Jolliffe, I.T. (2002). Principal Component Analysis (2nd ed.). Springer.	Huber, P. J. (1964). Robust estimation of a location parameter. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 35(1), 73–101.
Denumiri alternative	EFA, CFA, latent variable modeling	Temel Bileşenler Analizi (PCA), PCA, principal components analysis, Karhunen-Loève transform	M-estimation regression, robust linear regression, outlier-resistant regression, MM-estimation
Înrudite	3	3	6
Rezumat	Factor analysis is a statistical technique for identifying latent (unobserved) dimensions underlying observed variables, developed by Louis Leon Thurstone in the 1930s and formalized by Jöreskog (1969). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) discovers unknown factor structure from data; confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) tests hypothesized relationships between observed and latent variables. Essential in psychometrics (test development), organizational research (measuring constructs like leadership style), and biomedicine (identifying disease subtypes), factor analysis reduces dimensionality while revealing conceptual organization in multivariate data.	Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is an unsupervised dimensionality-reduction method — given its modern textbook treatment by Ian Jolliffe (2002) — that compresses high-dimensional data into fewer dimensions while preserving the maximum possible variance. It re-expresses correlated variables as a small set of uncorrelated principal components ordered by how much of the data's variation each one captures.	Robust regression estimates the linear relationship between a continuous outcome and predictors while sharply reducing the influence of outliers and leverage points. Unlike OLS, which is highly sensitive to extreme observations, robust methods assign down-weighted influence to atypical data points, producing coefficient estimates that remain stable even when a fraction of the data is contaminated or non-normally distributed.