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	การจัดกลุ่มแบบลำดับชั้นแบบเบย์ (BHC)	การวิเคราะห์กลุ่ม (Cluster Analysis)
สาขาวิชา	สถิติศาสตร์	สถิติศาสตร์
ตระกูล	Latent structure	Latent structure
ปีกำเนิด	2005	1939–1967
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Katherine Heller & Zoubin Ghahramani	Robert C. Tryon (early development); Ward (1963) for hierarchical; MacQueen (1967) for k-means
ประเภท	Probabilistic clustering / model-based hierarchical agglomeration	Unsupervised classification / grouping
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Heller, K. A. & Ghahramani, Z. (2005). Bayesian hierarchical clustering. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2005), pp. 297–304. ACM.	Everitt, B. S., Landau, S., Leese, M. & Stahl, D. (2011). Cluster Analysis (5th ed.). Wiley. ISBN: 978-0470749913
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	BHC, probabilistic hierarchical clustering, Bayesian agglomerative clustering	clustering, unsupervised classification, data clustering, numerical taxonomy
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	5
สรุป	Bayesian hierarchical clustering is a probabilistic agglomerative algorithm that builds a tree of nested cluster merges using Bayesian model comparison at each step. Rather than minimising a geometric linkage criterion, it evaluates at every candidate merge whether the data from two clusters are better explained by a single combined model or by two separate models, yielding a statistically principled dendrogram.	Cluster analysis is a family of unsupervised multivariate techniques that partition a set of objects or observations into internally homogeneous, mutually distinct groups — clusters — based on measured characteristics, without any prior knowledge of group membership. It is widely used in market segmentation, bioinformatics, psychology, and social science to reveal natural groupings in data.