方法对比

	稳健结构方程模型	稳健路径分析
领域	统计学	统计学
方法族	Latent structure	Latent structure
起源年份	1994	1998
提出者	Albert Satorra & Peter M. Bentler	Yuan & Bentler (robust SEM/path framework); Huber (M-estimation foundation)
类型	Latent variable / path model with robust inference	Causal path modeling with robust estimation
开创性文献	Satorra, A. & Bentler, P. M. (1994). Corrections to test statistics and standard errors in covariance structure analysis. In A. von Eye & C. C. Clogg (Eds.), Latent variables analysis (pp. 399–419). Sage.	Yuan, K.-H. & Bentler, P. M. (1998). Robust mean and covariance structure analysis. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 51(1), 63–88.
别名	Robust SEM, SEM with robust standard errors, Satorra-Bentler SEM, non-normal SEM	robust PA, path analysis with robust standard errors, robust causal path modeling, robust structural path modeling
相关	5	6
摘要	Robust structural equation modeling (Robust SEM) applies the full SEM framework — simultaneous estimation of measurement and structural relations among latent variables — while using corrected test statistics and sandwich standard errors that remain valid when observed data depart from multivariate normality. The Satorra-Bentler scaled chi-square is the most widely used correction.	Robust path analysis applies robust estimation — such as sandwich standard errors or M-estimation — to path models that specify directed causal relationships among observed variables. It preserves valid inference about path coefficients and indirect effects when data violate normality, contain outliers, or exhibit heteroscedasticity that would distort conventional standard errors.