Krahasoni metodat

	Analiza Faktoriale Eksploratore Politomike	Analiza Konfirmuese e Faktorëve (AKF)
Fusha	Psikometri	Psikometri
Familja	Latent structure	Latent structure
Viti i origjinës	1978	1969
Krijuesi	Bengt Muthén	Karl Gustav Jöreskog
Lloji	Latent variable / dimension reduction	Hypothesis-testing latent variable model
Burimi themelues	Flora, D. B., & Curran, P. J. (2004). An empirical evaluation of alternative methods of estimation for confirmatory factor analysis with ordinal data. Psychological Methods, 9(4), 466–491.	Jöreskog, K. G. (1969). A general approach to confirmatory maximum likelihood factor analysis. Psychometrika, 34(2), 183–202.
Emërtime të tjera	EFA for ordered-categorical data, polychoric EFA, ordinal exploratory factor analysis, polytomous factor analysis	CFA, confirmatory FA, measurement model, restricted factor analysis
Të lidhura	4	4
Përmbledhja	Polytomous exploratory factor analysis extends standard EFA to ordered categorical (Likert-type) response data by replacing the Pearson correlation matrix with a polychoric correlation matrix. It recovers the latent continuous variable that each polytomous item is assumed to reflect, yielding more accurate factor loadings and better-defined factor structures than treating ordinal scores as if they were continuous.	Confirmatory factor analysis tests a researcher-specified factor structure against observed data. Unlike exploratory approaches, the researcher decides in advance which indicators load on which latent factor, and the model is evaluated by how closely the implied covariance matrix reproduces the sample covariance matrix. CFA is central to scale validation, construct validity assessment, and measurement invariance testing.