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	Bayesiansk faktoriell analys	Bayesianskt nätverk	Konfirmerande faktoranalys (CFA)
Ämnesområde	Bayesiansk statistik	Bayesiansk statistik	Statistik
Familj	Bayesian methods	Bayesian methods	Latent structure
Ursprungsår	2004	1988	1969
Upphovsperson	Lopes & West (2004) for Bayesian model assessment in factor analysis	Judea Pearl	Karl Jöreskog
Typ	Bayesian latent variable model	Probabilistic graphical model	Confirmatory latent variable model
Ursprungskälla	Lopes, H. F. & West, M. (2004). Bayesian Model Assessment in Factor Analysis. Statistica Sinica, 14(1), 41–67.	Pearl, J. (1988). Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN: 978-1558604797	Brown, T. A. (2015). Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Applied Research (2nd ed.). The Guilford Press. ISBN: 978-1462515363
Alias	Bayesian EFA, Bayesian CFA, Bayesçi Faktör Analizi, probabilistic factor analysis	Bayes network, belief network, probabilistic graphical model, directed graphical model	Doğrulayıcı Faktör Analizi (CFA), confirmatory factor analysis, measurement model
Närliggande	7	4	4
Sammanfattning	Bayesian Factor Analysis is a probabilistic latent-variable method that places prior distributions on the factor loading matrix and the residual variances, then infers a full posterior over these parameters from the observed data. Developed prominently in the Bayesian framework by Lopes and West (2004), it extends classical exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis by quantifying uncertainty in every estimated loading rather than reporting single point estimates.	A Bayesian network is a probabilistic graphical model, introduced by Judea Pearl in 1988, that encodes a set of variables and their conditional dependencies as a directed acyclic graph (DAG). Each node represents a variable; each directed edge encodes a direct probabilistic influence. By combining Bayes' rule with the graph's conditional independence structure, the model supports reasoning under uncertainty — computing the probability of any variable given observed evidence about others.	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.