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	میانگین‌گیری بیزی چندسطحی	استنتاج بیزی سلسله‌مراتبی
حوزه	بیزی	بیزی
خانواده	Bayesian methods	Bayesian methods
سال پیدایش	1999–2000s	1972 (Lindley & Smith); consolidated 1995–2013
پدیدآور	Hoeting, Madigan, Raftery, Volinsky (BMA foundation); multilevel extension developed across the late 1990s–2000s	Lindley & Smith; Gelman et al.
نوع	Bayesian ensemble / model selection	Bayesian multilevel model
منبع بنیادین	Hoeting, J. A., Madigan, D., Raftery, A. E. & Volinsky, C. T. (1999). Bayesian model averaging: A tutorial. Statistical Science, 14(4), 382-401.	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	ML-BMA, hierarchical Bayesian model averaging, multilevel BMA, Bayesian model averaging in multilevel models	multilevel Bayesian modeling, Bayesian hierarchical model, nested Bayesian model, partial pooling model
مرتبط	6	6
خلاصه	Multilevel Bayesian model averaging (ML-BMA) extends classical Bayesian model averaging to grouped or hierarchically structured data. Rather than committing to a single multilevel model specification, it computes a weighted average of predictions and parameter estimates across a set of candidate multilevel models, weighting each model by its posterior probability given the data. The result accounts simultaneously for uncertainty in the grouping structure, fixed effects, random effects, and covariate selection.	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.