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	Πολυεπίπεδο Δίκτυο Bayes	Ιεραρχική Μπεϋζιανή Συμπερασματολογία
Πεδίο	Μπεϋζιανή Στατιστική	Μπεϋζιανή Στατιστική
Οικογένεια	Bayesian methods	Bayesian methods
Έτος προέλευσης	1990s–2000s	1972 (Lindley & Smith); consolidated 1995–2013
Δημιουργός	Extension of Pearl's Bayesian networks; multilevel formulation developed in statistical relational learning community, 1990s–2000s	Lindley & Smith; Gelman et al.
Τύπος	Probabilistic graphical model (hierarchical)	Bayesian multilevel model
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Koller, D. & Friedman, N. (2009). Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques. MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0262013192	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	multi-level Bayesian network, hierarchical Bayesian network, MLBN, multilevel probabilistic graphical model	multilevel Bayesian modeling, Bayesian hierarchical model, nested Bayesian model, partial pooling model
Συναφείς	6	6
Σύνοψη	A multilevel Bayesian network extends the standard Bayesian network to data with hierarchical or grouped structure — students within schools, patients within hospitals, observations within subjects — by placing separate but linked graphical models at each level, with higher-level parameters governing the conditional probability tables of lower-level nodes. The result is a principled probabilistic framework that captures both within-group relationships and between-group variation.	Hierarchical Bayesian inference is a probabilistic modeling framework that organises parameters into levels, placing priors on the group-level parameters and hyperpriors on the parameters governing those priors. It enables partial pooling of information across groups, balancing the extremes of treating each group as independent or merging them into a single estimate.