VCBART: Bayesian trees for varying coefficients
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| author | Deshpande, Sameer K. Bai, Ray Balocchi, Cecilia Starling, Jennifer E. Weiss, Jordan |
| author_facet | Deshpande, Sameer K. Bai, Ray Balocchi, Cecilia Starling, Jennifer E. Weiss, Jordan |
| contents | The linear varying coefficient models posits a linear relationship between an outcome and covariates in which the covariate effects are modeled as functions of additional effect modifiers. Despite a long history of study and use in statistics and econometrics, state-of-the-art varying coefficient modeling methods cannot accommodate multivariate effect modifiers without imposing restrictive functional form assumptions or involving computationally intensive hyperparameter tuning. In response, we introduce VCBART, which flexibly estimates the covariate effect in a varying coefficient model using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees. With simple default settings, VCBART outperforms existing varying coefficient methods in terms of covariate effect estimation, uncertainty quantification, and outcome prediction. We illustrate the utility of VCBART with two case studies: one examining how the association between later-life cognition and measures of socioeconomic position vary with respect to age and socio-demographics and another estimating how temporal trends in urban crime vary at the neighborhood level. An R package implementing VCBART is available at https://github.com/skdeshpande91/VCBART |
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| spellingShingle | VCBART: Bayesian trees for varying coefficients Deshpande, Sameer K. Bai, Ray Balocchi, Cecilia Starling, Jennifer E. Weiss, Jordan Methodology The linear varying coefficient models posits a linear relationship between an outcome and covariates in which the covariate effects are modeled as functions of additional effect modifiers. Despite a long history of study and use in statistics and econometrics, state-of-the-art varying coefficient modeling methods cannot accommodate multivariate effect modifiers without imposing restrictive functional form assumptions or involving computationally intensive hyperparameter tuning. In response, we introduce VCBART, which flexibly estimates the covariate effect in a varying coefficient model using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees. With simple default settings, VCBART outperforms existing varying coefficient methods in terms of covariate effect estimation, uncertainty quantification, and outcome prediction. We illustrate the utility of VCBART with two case studies: one examining how the association between later-life cognition and measures of socioeconomic position vary with respect to age and socio-demographics and another estimating how temporal trends in urban crime vary at the neighborhood level. An R package implementing VCBART is available at https://github.com/skdeshpande91/VCBART |
| title | VCBART: Bayesian trees for varying coefficients |
| topic | Methodology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06416 |