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	تحلیل عاملی بیزی	زنجیره مارکوف مونت کارلو (MCMC)
حوزه	بیزی	بیزی
خانواده	Bayesian methods	Bayesian methods
سال پیدایش	2004	—
پدیدآور	Lopes & West (2004) for Bayesian model assessment in factor analysis	—
نوع	Bayesian latent variable model	Posterior sampling algorithm
منبع بنیادین	Lopes, H. F. & West, M. (2004). Bayesian Model Assessment in Factor Analysis. Statistica Sinica, 14(1), 41–67.	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
نام‌های دیگر	Bayesian EFA, Bayesian CFA, Bayesçi Faktör Analizi, probabilistic factor analysis	markov chain monte carlo, MCMC sampling, MCMC (Markov Zinciri Monte Carlo)
مرتبط	7	3
خلاصه	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.	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.