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	Inferenza Variazionale Spaziale	Inferenza Bayesiana Spaziale
Campo	Bayesiano	Bayesiano
Famiglia	Bayesian methods	Bayesian methods
Anno di origine	2009	1991
Ideatore	Titsias (2009) for sparse GP; Rue, Martino & Chopin (2009) for latent Gaussian spatial models	Besag, York & Mollie (CAR prior, 1991); Gelfand & colleagues (Bayesian geostatistics, 1990s)
Tipo	Approximate Bayesian inference algorithm	Bayesian hierarchical spatial model
Fonte seminale	Titsias, M. K. (2009). Variational learning of inducing variables in sparse Gaussian processes. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), PMLR 5, pp. 567-574.	Banerjee, S., Carlin, B. P. & Gelfand, A. E. (2015). Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Spatial Data (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1439819173
Alias	SVI spatial, variational Bayes for spatial data, approximate Bayesian inference for spatial models, variational GP inference	Bayesian spatial analysis, Bayesian geostatistics, spatial Bayesian modeling, Bayesian areal modeling
Correlati	5	2
Sintesi	Spatial variational inference is a scalable approximate Bayesian method that fits latent Gaussian or Gaussian-process models to georeferenced data by optimising a lower bound on the marginal likelihood. It replaces expensive MCMC sampling with a deterministic optimisation step, making full-posterior uncertainty quantification tractable for large spatial datasets.	Spatial Bayesian inference applies Bayesian hierarchical modeling to data indexed by geographic location. By placing structured spatial priors on location-specific random effects, the model borrows information from neighboring regions or nearby points, producing smooth, uncertainty-quantified maps of any spatially varying outcome — disease rates, pollution levels, species abundance, or environmental risk.