เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การวิจัยแบบเบย์เซียนสำหรับข้อมูลแผง	Multilevel Modeling
สาขาวิชา	การออกแบบการวิจัย	สถิติการวิจัย
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1990s–2000s (contemporary synthesis)	1992
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Building on Bayes (1763) and panel data econometrics; systematised by Hsiao, Lancaster, and others in the 1990s–2000s	Anthony Bryk and Stephen Raudenbush
ประเภท	Quantitative longitudinal research design with Bayesian inference	Method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Lancaster, T. (2004). An Introduction to Modern Bayesian Econometrics. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN: 978-1405117868	Bryk, A. S., & Raudenbush, S. W. (1992). Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods. SAGE Publications.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Bayesian longitudinal panel study, Bayesian panel data analysis, BPD research, Bayesian repeated-measures panel design	HLM, mixed-effects models, random effects models, MLM
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	3
สรุป	Bayesian panel research combines the longitudinal structure of panel data — where the same units (individuals, firms, countries) are observed at multiple time points — with Bayesian statistical inference. Rather than relying solely on the observed data and point estimates, it incorporates prior knowledge via probability distributions, updates those priors with repeated-measures data, and produces full posterior distributions over model parameters. This yields richer uncertainty quantification and principled handling of individual heterogeneity across waves.	Multilevel modeling (also called hierarchical linear modeling, mixed-effects modeling) is a statistical framework for analyzing data organized in nested or clustered structures—students within schools, patients within hospitals, repeated measures within individuals. Developed by Bryk and Raudenbush (1992), it accounts for dependency among observations and partitions variance into levels (within-cluster and between-cluster), enabling valid inference and revealing context effects. Essential in education, medicine, organizational research, and any field where data have natural hierarchies.