A new avenue for Bayesian inference with INLA

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Autores principales: van Niekerk, Janet, Krainski, Elias, Rustand, Denis, Rue, Haavard
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Publicado: 2022
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author van Niekerk, Janet
Krainski, Elias
Rustand, Denis
Rue, Haavard
author_facet van Niekerk, Janet
Krainski, Elias
Rustand, Denis
Rue, Haavard
contents Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations (INLA) has been a successful approximate Bayesian inference framework since its proposal by Rue et al. (2009). The increased computational efficiency and accuracy when compared with sampling-based methods for Bayesian inference like MCMC methods, are some contributors to its success. Ongoing research in the INLA methodology and implementation thereof in the R package R-INLA, ensures continued relevance for practitioners and improved performance and applicability of INLA. The era of big data and some recent research developments, presents an opportunity to reformulate some aspects of the classic INLA formulation, to achieve even faster inference, improved numerical stability and scalability. The improvement is especially noticeable for data-rich models. We demonstrate the efficiency gains with various examples of data-rich models, like Cox's proportional hazards model, an item-response theory model, a spatial model including prediction, and a 3-dimensional model for fMRI data.
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spellingShingle A new avenue for Bayesian inference with INLA
van Niekerk, Janet
Krainski, Elias
Rustand, Denis
Rue, Haavard
Methodology
Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations (INLA) has been a successful approximate Bayesian inference framework since its proposal by Rue et al. (2009). The increased computational efficiency and accuracy when compared with sampling-based methods for Bayesian inference like MCMC methods, are some contributors to its success. Ongoing research in the INLA methodology and implementation thereof in the R package R-INLA, ensures continued relevance for practitioners and improved performance and applicability of INLA. The era of big data and some recent research developments, presents an opportunity to reformulate some aspects of the classic INLA formulation, to achieve even faster inference, improved numerical stability and scalability. The improvement is especially noticeable for data-rich models. We demonstrate the efficiency gains with various examples of data-rich models, like Cox's proportional hazards model, an item-response theory model, a spatial model including prediction, and a 3-dimensional model for fMRI data.
title A new avenue for Bayesian inference with INLA
topic Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06797