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Bayesian statistics and Bayesian non-parametrics

[Bayesian statistics, Markov chain Monte Carlo, graphical models, hierarchical models, non-parametric priors, reference priors]

Theme leader: Tim Hanson
Theme members: Dryden, Hanson, Hitchcock, Lin, Tebbs, H.Wang, L.Wang

Some Publications

  • Hanson, T., Monteiro, J., and Jara, A. (2011). The Polya tree sampler: Towards efficient and automatic independent Metropolis-Hastings proposals. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 20, 41-62.
  • Pritchard, N. and Tebbs, J. (2011). Bayesian inference for disease prevalence using negative binomial group testing. Biometrical Journal, 53, 40-56.
  • L. Wang and D. Dunson (2010). Semiparametric Bayes Multiple testing: Application to Tumor Data . Biometrics, 66, 493-501.
  • H. Wang and M. West, Bayesian analysis of matrix normal graphical models. Biometrika 96 (2009):821-834
  • H. Wang and C. M. Carvalho (2010), Simulation of Hyper-Inverse Wishart Distributions for Non-decomposable Graphs. Electronic Journal of Statistics 4:1470-1467
  • L. Wang and D. Dunson (2011). Fast Bayesian Inference in Dirichlet Process Mixture Models . Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 20, 196.216.
  • H. Wang and M. West, Bayesian analysis of matrix normal graphical models. Biometrika 96 (2009):821-834
  • H. Wang and C. M. Carvalho (2010), Simulation of Hyper-Inverse Wishart Distributions for Non-decomposable Graphs. Electronic Journal of Statistics 4:1470-1467
  • Zhao, L., Hanson, T., and Carlin, B. (2009). Flexible spatial frailty modeling via mixtures of Polya trees. Biometrika, 96, 263-276.
  • Branscum, A. and Hanson, T. (2008). Bayesian nonparametric meta-analysis using Polya tree mixture models. Biometrics, 64, 825-833.
  • Hanson, T. (2006). Inference for mixtures of finite Polya tree models. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101, 1548-1565.
  • Christensen, R., Johnson, W., Branscum, A., and Hanson, T. (2010). Bayesian Ideas and Data Analysis: An Introduction for Scientists and Statisticians. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
  • Alshabani, A. K. S., Dryden, I.L., Litton, C.D. and Richardson, J. (2007). Bayesian analysis of human movement curves. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics), 56, 415-428.
  • Arato, N.M., Dryden, I.L. and Taylor, C.C. (2006). Hierarchical Bayesian modelling of spatial agedependent mortality. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 1347-1363.
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