Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Βαϋεσιανή Δομική Ανάλυση Χρονοσειρών	Μπεϋζιανή Παλινδρόμηση	Ανάλυση Διακοπτόμενης Χρονοσειράς (ITS)	Αλυσίδες Markov Monte Carlo (MCMC)
Πεδίο	Μπεϋζιανή Στατιστική	Μπεϋζιανή Στατιστική	Αιτιακή Συμπερασματολογία	Μπεϋζιανή Στατιστική
Οικογένεια	Bayesian methods	Bayesian methods	Regression model	Bayesian methods
Έτος προέλευσης	2014	—	2002	—
Δημιουργός	Scott & Varian (2014); Brodersen et al. (2015)	—	Wagner, Soumerai, Zhang & Ross-Degnan (segmented regression); Bernal, Cummins & Gasparrini (tutorial)	—
Τύπος	State-space model / Bayesian structural model	Bayesian linear model	Quasi-experimental segmented regression	Posterior sampling algorithm
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Scott, S. L. & Varian, H. R. (2014). Predicting the Present with Bayesian Structural Time Series. International Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Optimisation, 5(1/2), 4–23.	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	Bernal, J. L., Cummins, S., & Gasparrini, A. (2017). Interrupted time series regression for the evaluation of public health interventions: a tutorial. International Journal of Epidemiology, 46(1), 348-355.	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	BSTS, Bayesian Yapısal Zaman Serisi (BSTS), bayesian state-space model, causal impact model	bayesian linear regression, probabilistic regression, bayesian regresyon	ITS analysis, segmented regression of time series, Kesintili Zaman Serisi (ITS) Analizi	markov chain monte carlo, MCMC sampling, MCMC (Markov Zinciri Monte Carlo)
Συναφείς	5	2	5	3
Σύνοψη	Bayesian Structural Time Series (BSTS) is a state-space modelling framework, introduced by Scott and Varian (2014), that decomposes a time series into additive components — trend, seasonality, and regression — and estimates them jointly through Bayesian inference. It underpins Google's CausalImpact library and is a powerful tool for both forecasting and counterfactual causal analysis of interventions.	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.	Interrupted Time Series analysis is a quasi-experimental design that estimates the effect of a single, well-dated intervention by comparing the trajectory of an outcome before and after it occurs. Formalised as segmented regression by Wagner and colleagues (2002) and popularised as a public-health evaluation tutorial by Bernal, Cummins and Gasparrini (2017), it separates the intervention's impact into a change in level and a change in slope.	Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a family of computational algorithms for sampling from complex probability distributions, most commonly the posterior distributions that arise in Bayesian inference. Rather than computing posteriors analytically — which is rarely possible for realistic models — MCMC constructs a Markov chain whose stationary distribution is the target posterior and draws dependent samples from it, enabling full probabilistic inference for virtually any model.