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	শর্তাধীন প্রক্রিয়া বিশ্লেষণ (মডারেটেড মধ্যস্থতা)	বেয়েশীয় গাঠনিক সমীকরণ মডেলিং (Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling - BSEM)	কার্যকারণ মধ্যস্থতাকারী বিশ্লেষণ (প্রাকৃতিক প্রত্যক্ষ ও পরোক্ষ প্রভাব)
ক্ষেত্র	কার্যকারণ অনুমান	বেইসীয়	কার্যকারণ অনুমান
পরিবার	Regression model	Bayesian methods	Regression model
উদ্ভবের বছর	2018	2012	2010
প্রবর্তক	Andrew F. Hayes (PROCESS framework); Preacher, Rucker & Hayes (moderated mediation)	Bengt Muthén & Tihomir Asparouhov	Pearl (2001); general framework by Imai, Keele & Tingley (2010)
ধরন	Regression-based conditional process model	Bayesian latent variable model	Counterfactual causal decomposition
মৌলিক উৎস	Hayes, A. F. (2018). Introduction to Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis: A Regression-Based Approach (2nd ed.). The Guilford Press. ISBN: 978-1462534654	Muthén, B. & Asparouhov, T. (2012). Bayesian SEM: A More Flexible Representation of Substantive Theory. Psychological Methods, 17(3), 313–335.	Pearl, J. (2001). Direct and Indirect Effects. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 411-420.
অপর নাম	moderated mediation, moderated mediation analysis, PROCESS model, Hayes PROCESS conditional process model	BSEM, Bayesian latent variable model, approximate zero constraints SEM, Bayesçi Yapısal Eşitlik Modeli	natural direct effect, natural indirect effect, NDE / NIE decomposition, counterfactual mediation
সম্পর্কিত	5	6	5
সারসংক্ষেপ	Conditional process analysis is Andrew F. Hayes's regression-based PROCESS framework (2018) that combines mediation and moderation in a single model, testing how an indirect effect changes across levels of a moderator. It quantifies conditional indirect and conditional direct effects and tests them with bootstrap confidence intervals.	Bayesian SEM, introduced by Muthén and Asparouhov in 2012, extends classical structural equation modeling by placing prior distributions on factor loadings, path coefficients, and covariances. Instead of returning a single maximum-likelihood estimate, it uses Markov chain Monte Carlo to produce a full posterior distribution for every parameter, enabling principled uncertainty quantification in models with latent variables.	Causal mediation analysis is a counterfactual framework that splits a treatment's total effect into a Natural Direct Effect (NDE) and a Natural Indirect Effect (NIE) that runs through a mediator. The modern general approach was formalised by Pearl (2001) and Imai, Keele and Tingley (2010), giving the decomposition a precise causal interpretation.