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Auteurs principaux: Alie, Renaud, Stephens, David A., Schmidt, Alexandra M.
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Publié: 2022
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author Alie, Renaud
Stephens, David A.
Schmidt, Alexandra M.
author_facet Alie, Renaud
Stephens, David A.
Schmidt, Alexandra M.
contents Many models for point process data are defined through a thinning procedure where locations of a base process (often Poisson) are either kept (observed) or discarded (thinned). In this paper, we go back to the fundamentals of the distribution theory for point processes to establish a link between the base thinning mechanism and the joint density of thinned and observed locations in any of such models. In practice, the marginal model of observed points is often intractable, but thinned locations can be instantiated from their conditional distribution and typical data augmentation schemes can be employed to circumvent this problem. Such approaches have been employed in the recent literature, but some inconsistencies have been introduced across the different publications. We concentrate on an example: the so-called sigmoidal Gaussian Cox process. We apply our approach to resolve contradicting viewpoints in the data augmentation step of the inference procedures therein. We also provide a multitype extension to this process and conduct Bayesian inference on data consisting of positions of two different species of trees in Lansing Woods, Michigan. The emphasis is put on intertype dependence modeling with Bayesian uncertainty quantification.
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spellingShingle Bayesian Analysis of Sigmoidal Gaussian Cox Processes via Data Augmentation
Alie, Renaud
Stephens, David A.
Schmidt, Alexandra M.
Methodology
Many models for point process data are defined through a thinning procedure where locations of a base process (often Poisson) are either kept (observed) or discarded (thinned). In this paper, we go back to the fundamentals of the distribution theory for point processes to establish a link between the base thinning mechanism and the joint density of thinned and observed locations in any of such models. In practice, the marginal model of observed points is often intractable, but thinned locations can be instantiated from their conditional distribution and typical data augmentation schemes can be employed to circumvent this problem. Such approaches have been employed in the recent literature, but some inconsistencies have been introduced across the different publications. We concentrate on an example: the so-called sigmoidal Gaussian Cox process. We apply our approach to resolve contradicting viewpoints in the data augmentation step of the inference procedures therein. We also provide a multitype extension to this process and conduct Bayesian inference on data consisting of positions of two different species of trees in Lansing Woods, Michigan. The emphasis is put on intertype dependence modeling with Bayesian uncertainty quantification.
title Bayesian Analysis of Sigmoidal Gaussian Cox Processes via Data Augmentation
topic Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.06743