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	การวิเคราะห์ปัจจัยแบบเบย์ (Bayesian Factor Analysis)	การวิเคราะห์ปัจจัยเชิงยืนยัน (Confirmatory Factor Analysis - CFA)	การวิเคราะห์ปัจจัยเชิงสำรวจ (Exploratory Factor Analysis, EFA)
สาขาวิชา	เบย์	สถิติศาสตร์	สถิติศาสตร์
ตระกูล	Bayesian methods	Latent structure	Latent structure
ปีกำเนิด	2004	1969	—
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Lopes & West (2004) for Bayesian model assessment in factor analysis	Karl Jöreskog	—
ประเภท	Bayesian latent variable model	Confirmatory latent variable model	Latent variable / dimension reduction
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Lopes, H. F. & West, M. (2004). Bayesian Model Assessment in Factor Analysis. Statistica Sinica, 14(1), 41–67.	Brown, T. A. (2015). Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Applied Research (2nd ed.). The Guilford Press. ISBN: 978-1462515363	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.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Bayesian EFA, Bayesian CFA, Bayesçi Faktör Analizi, probabilistic factor analysis	Doğrulayıcı Faktör Analizi (CFA), confirmatory factor analysis, measurement model	common factor analysis, açımlayıcı faktör analizi, factor analysis
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	7	4	4
สรุป	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.	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.	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.