Bayesian Methods (MCMC)
Bayesian Methods for Nonlinear and Discrete Data with Complex Dependence.
... converged Bayesian algorithms from the previous section, we used GSAS-II to generate a calculated diffraction ...the Bayesian models along with the Rietveld point estimates as vertical lines with ± 2 ...
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Bayesian Methods for Images and Trees
... (iii), Bayesian methods allow for joint inference since we draw samples from the joint posterior distributions, as demonstrated by the nu- merical results in Section ...adaptive methods are hard to ...
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Bayesian methods for empirical macroeconomics with big data
... First, Bayesian analysis using the Minnesota prior is computationally simple, involving only analytical results and with no need to use MCMC ...MCMC methods are computationally ...
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Computational Bayesian Methods for Insurance Premium Estimation
... The method exposed here assumes that one is able to simulate random variables from the distribution of interest. Often with Bayesian methods it happens that one has a function that is proportional to the ...
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Some Bayesian methods for univariate density estimation
... solely Bayesian methods whereas Leonard, ...for Bayesian and presented results from a maximum likelihood ...using Bayesian techniques, but conditioned on the density integrating to one rather ...
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Bayesian methods for hierarchical distance sampling models
... Bayesian methods are becoming increasingly popular for modelling wildlife populations and abun- dances ...their methods for line-transect data and use the half-normal detection ...a Bayesian ...
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Bayesian Methods for Improving Credit Scoring Models
... between Bayesian methods and pooling is that the latter is only possible if full access to additional data sets is ...the Bayesian method is that it provides a natural way for dealing with structural ...
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Advances in Nonparametric Bayesian Methods for Clustering and Classification.
... Nonparametric Bayesian methods have proven to be extremely useful due to their flexibility and applicability to a wide range of ...parametric Bayesian techniques are presented for classification and ...
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Density Estimation Using Nonparametric Bayesian Methods
... of Bayesian methods for parametric problems, and this equally true for nonparametric density ...on Bayesian nonparametric methods, Ferguson (1973) stipulated that prior distributions must ...
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Bayesian methods in clinical trials: a Bayesian analysis of ECOG trials E1684 and E1690
... using Bayesian methods. The Bayesian meth- odology lends itself well into this type of analysis since the E1684 data can effectively be used as prior information for the E1690 ...the Bayesian ...
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Bayesian Methods for Optimal Treatment Allocation and Causal Inference.
... these methods, the policy via α and κ(α) is computed using Monte Carlo simulation given posterior samples, using the fit to the training ...these methods are approximated using sample means over 1,000,000 ...
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Bayesian Methods for Functional and Time Series Data
... We must also specify a choice for K. In the yield curve application, two natural choices are K = 3 and K = 4 for comparison with the common para- metric yield curve models: the Nelson-Siegel model (Nelson and Siegel, ...
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Bayesian methods for system reliability and community detection
... a Bayesian nonparametric partition model for the community structure in a ...the Bayesian techniques such as MCMC algorithms, a decision theory framework for obtaining communities, model selection, and ...
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On Bayesian Methods in Network Regression
... structured Bayesian network shrinkage prior over the penalized optimization scheme incorporating network ...All Bayesian competitors are allowed to draw 50, 000 MCMC samples, out of which the first 30,000 ...
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Bayesian semiparametric methods for longitudinal, multivariate, and survival data
... our methods may need to be modified to improve efficiency under high dimensional models (discussed in Chapters 3 and 5) or large data sets (discussed in Chapter ...for Bayesian methods as many future ...
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Bayesian Methods for High Dimensional Models in Brain Imaging.
... nonparametric Bayesian approach by assigning a Dirich- let process scale mixture of zero mean normal prior on the distributions of the random effects and finite random series of tensor products of B-splines priors ...
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Bayesian methods for gravitational waves and neural networks
... use Bayesian criteria to detect and characterise signals and demonstrate the ability to perform model selection to determine the correct injected signal ...Again Bayesian criteria prove to be powerful in ...
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ESSAYS ON EMPIRICAL ASSET PRICING USING BAYESIAN METHODS
... a Bayesian approach to calculate posterior probabilities of possible ...a Bayesian variable selection procedure from the statistics literature called Stochastic Search Variable Selection (SSSV), introduced ...
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Exploring Bayesian Methods for the Measurement of Operational Risk
... – Possibly building on existing qualitative risk assessment methods (e.g. CAMEL, RATE) where different levels of supervision apply depending on the risk rating of the firm. But it may be very difficult to maintain ...
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Advances in Bayesian Methods for High-Dimensional Environmental Data.
... standard Bayesian regression model and then post-process the posterior distribution in a decision-theoretic way using a loss function that penalizes models that do not include confounding variables and other ...
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