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	Μπεϋζιανή Διακριτική Ανάλυση	Μπεϋζιανή Ανάλυση Λανθανουσών Κλάσεων (BLCA)
Πεδίο	Στατιστική	Στατιστική
Οικογένεια	Latent structure	Latent structure
Έτος προέλευσης	1964	1990s–2000s
Δημιουργός	Seymour Geisser	Lazarsfeld (classical LCA); Bayesian formulation developed through Cheeseman & Stutz (1996) and Dunson & Xing (2009)
Τύπος	Supervised classification / Bayesian inference	Bayesian latent variable / finite mixture model
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Geisser, S. (1964). Posterior odds for multivariate normal classifications. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 26(1), 69–76.	Dunson, D. B. & Xing, C. (2009). Nonparametric Bayes modeling of multivariate categorical data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 104(487), 1042–1051.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	BDA, Bayesian linear discriminant analysis, Bayesian quadratic discriminant analysis, Bayesian classification	Bayesian LCA, BLCA, Bayesian mixture of multinomials, Bayesian finite mixture model
Συναφείς	4	6
Σύνοψη	Bayesian discriminant analysis assigns observations to predefined groups by combining a multivariate Gaussian likelihood for each class with prior distributions over the class means and covariance matrices. Posterior predictive probabilities replace point-estimate decision boundaries, providing principled uncertainty quantification for classification in small or high-dimensional samples.	Bayesian latent class analysis extends classical LCA by placing prior distributions on all model parameters and using posterior inference — typically via MCMC — to classify individuals into unobserved categorical groups, quantify uncertainty around class membership, and select the number of classes in a principled, probabilistic way.