Unsupervised Bayesian classification for models with scalar and functional covariates

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Main Authors: Garcia, Nancy L., Rodrigues-Motta, Mariana, Migon, Helio S., Petkova, Eva, Tarpey, Thaddeus, Ogden, R. Todd, Giodano, Julio O., Perez, Martin Matias
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Published: 2022
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author Garcia, Nancy L.
Rodrigues-Motta, Mariana
Migon, Helio S.
Petkova, Eva
Tarpey, Thaddeus
Ogden, R. Todd
Giodano, Julio O.
Perez, Martin Matias
author_facet Garcia, Nancy L.
Rodrigues-Motta, Mariana
Migon, Helio S.
Petkova, Eva
Tarpey, Thaddeus
Ogden, R. Todd
Giodano, Julio O.
Perez, Martin Matias
contents We consider unsupervised classification by means of a latent multinomial variable which categorizes a scalar response into one of L components of a mixture model. This process can be thought as a hierarchical model with first level modelling a scalar response according to a mixture of parametric distributions, the second level models the mixture probabilities by means of a generalised linear model with functional and scalar covariates. The traditional approach of treating functional covariates as vectors not only suffers from the curse of dimensionality since functional covariates can be measured at very small intervals leading to a highly parametrised model but also does not take into account the nature of the data. We use basis expansion to reduce the dimensionality and a Bayesian approach to estimate the parameters while providing predictions of the latent classification vector. By means of a simulation study we investigate the behaviour of our approach considering normal mixture model and zero inflated mixture of Poisson distributions. We also compare the performance of the classical Gibbs sampling approach with Variational Bayes Inference.
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spellingShingle Unsupervised Bayesian classification for models with scalar and functional covariates
Garcia, Nancy L.
Rodrigues-Motta, Mariana
Migon, Helio S.
Petkova, Eva
Tarpey, Thaddeus
Ogden, R. Todd
Giodano, Julio O.
Perez, Martin Matias
Methodology
We consider unsupervised classification by means of a latent multinomial variable which categorizes a scalar response into one of L components of a mixture model. This process can be thought as a hierarchical model with first level modelling a scalar response according to a mixture of parametric distributions, the second level models the mixture probabilities by means of a generalised linear model with functional and scalar covariates. The traditional approach of treating functional covariates as vectors not only suffers from the curse of dimensionality since functional covariates can be measured at very small intervals leading to a highly parametrised model but also does not take into account the nature of the data. We use basis expansion to reduce the dimensionality and a Bayesian approach to estimate the parameters while providing predictions of the latent classification vector. By means of a simulation study we investigate the behaviour of our approach considering normal mixture model and zero inflated mixture of Poisson distributions. We also compare the performance of the classical Gibbs sampling approach with Variational Bayes Inference.
title Unsupervised Bayesian classification for models with scalar and functional covariates
topic Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04037