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	Μπεϋζιανή Ανάλυση Παραγόντων	Δίκτυο Bayes	Μπεϋζιανή Παλινδρόμηση
Πεδίο	Μπεϋζιανή Στατιστική	Μπεϋζιανή Στατιστική	Μπεϋζιανή Στατιστική
Οικογένεια	Bayesian methods	Bayesian methods	Bayesian methods
Έτος προέλευσης	2004	1988	—
Δημιουργός	Lopes & West (2004) for Bayesian model assessment in factor analysis	Judea Pearl	—
Τύπος	Bayesian latent variable model	Probabilistic graphical model	Bayesian linear model
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	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	Gelman, A., Carlin, J. B., Stern, H. S., Dunson, D. B., Vehtari, A. & Rubin, D. B. (2013). Bayesian Data Analysis (3rd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1439840955
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Bayesian EFA, Bayesian CFA, Bayesçi Faktör Analizi, probabilistic factor analysis	Bayes network, belief network, probabilistic graphical model, directed graphical model	bayesian linear regression, probabilistic regression, bayesian regresyon
Συναφείς	7	4	2
Σύνοψη	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.	Bayesian regression is a probabilistic version of linear regression that treats the model parameters as uncertain quantities. Instead of returning a single best-fit estimate, it combines prior knowledge with the observed data to produce a full posterior probability distribution for each parameter, from which credible intervals and predictions are read off.