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	การอนุมานแบบเบย์ (Bayesian Inference)	การประมาณค่าภาวะน่าจะเป็นสูงสุด
สาขาวิชา	สถิติศาสตร์	สถิติศาสตร์
ตระกูล	Bayesian methods	Regression model
ปีกำเนิด	1763	1922
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Thomas Bayes; Pierre-Simon Laplace	R. A. Fisher
ประเภท	Probabilistic inference paradigm	Parametric point estimator
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Bayes, T. (1763). An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 53, 370–418.	Fisher, R. A. (1922). On the mathematical foundations of theoretical statistics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 222, 309–368.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Bayes inference, Bayesian statistics, Bayesian updating, posterior inference	MLE, maximum-likelihood estimator, ML estimation, Fisher's method of maximum likelihood
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	3	4
สรุป	Bayesian inference is a statistical paradigm in which probability represents degrees of belief rather than long-run frequencies. It encodes prior knowledge about parameters in a prior distribution, combines that prior with the likelihood of observed data via Bayes' theorem, and produces a posterior distribution that quantifies updated uncertainty. The foundational theorem was published posthumously by Thomas Bayes in 1763 and subsequently systematized by Pierre-Simon Laplace in his 1812 Théorie analytique des probabilités.	Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) is a general-purpose parametric method for estimating the unknown parameters of a statistical model by finding the parameter values that make the observed data most probable. Formalized by R. A. Fisher in his landmark 1922 paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, MLE has become the dominant parameter-estimation paradigm in modern statistics and is the foundational engine behind logistic regression, generalized linear models, structural equation modeling, and virtually all parametric inference procedures.