Methoden vergelijken

	Bayesiaanse Multidimensionale Schaling (BMDS)	Bayesiaanse Clusteranalyse
Vakgebied	Statistiek	Statistiek
Familie	Latent structure	Latent structure
Jaar van ontstaan	2001	1998–2002
Grondlegger	Oh & Raftery	Fraley & Raftery (model-based); Dirichlet process formulations by Ferguson (1973) and Antoniak (1974)
Type	Bayesian latent-space dimensionality reduction	Probabilistic / model-based clustering
Oorspronkelijke bron	Oh, M.-S. & Raftery, A. E. (2001). Bayesian multidimensional scaling and choice of dimension. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 96(455), 1031–1044.	Fraley, C. & Raftery, A. E. (2002). Model-based clustering, discriminant analysis, and density estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 97(458), 611–631.
Aliassen	Bayesian MDS, BMDS, probabilistic MDS, Bayesian proximity scaling	BCA, Bayesian clustering, probabilistic cluster analysis, Bayesian model-based clustering
Verwant	6	6
Samenvatting	Bayesian Multidimensional Scaling places objects in a low-dimensional latent space so that inter-object distances reproduce observed dissimilarities, while a full Bayesian treatment quantifies uncertainty in the coordinates, handles missing proximities naturally, and selects the number of dimensions via model comparison rather than heuristic inspection.	Bayesian cluster analysis assigns observations to latent groups by combining a probabilistic model of within-cluster data with prior beliefs about cluster parameters and the number of clusters. It yields posterior probabilities of cluster membership and principled uncertainty estimates, making it more transparent than classical distance-based clustering algorithms.