Nonparametric priors with full-range borrowing of information
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| author | Ascolani, Filippo Franzolini, Beatrice Lijoi, Antonio Prünster, Igor |
| author_facet | Ascolani, Filippo Franzolini, Beatrice Lijoi, Antonio Prünster, Igor |
| contents | Modeling of the dependence structure across heterogeneous data is crucial for Bayesian inference since it directly impacts the borrowing of information. Despite the extensive advances over the last two decades, most available proposals allow only for non-negative correlations. We derive a new class of dependent nonparametric priors that can induce correlations of any sign, thus introducing a new and more flexible idea of borrowing of information. This is achieved thanks to a novel concept, which we term hyper-tie, and represents a direct and simple measure of dependence. We investigate prior and posterior distributional properties of the model and develop algorithms to perform posterior inference. Illustrative examples on simulated and real data show that our proposal outperforms alternatives in terms of prediction and clustering. |
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| spellingShingle | Nonparametric priors with full-range borrowing of information Ascolani, Filippo Franzolini, Beatrice Lijoi, Antonio Prünster, Igor Methodology Probability Statistics Theory Modeling of the dependence structure across heterogeneous data is crucial for Bayesian inference since it directly impacts the borrowing of information. Despite the extensive advances over the last two decades, most available proposals allow only for non-negative correlations. We derive a new class of dependent nonparametric priors that can induce correlations of any sign, thus introducing a new and more flexible idea of borrowing of information. This is achieved thanks to a novel concept, which we term hyper-tie, and represents a direct and simple measure of dependence. We investigate prior and posterior distributional properties of the model and develop algorithms to perform posterior inference. Illustrative examples on simulated and real data show that our proposal outperforms alternatives in terms of prediction and clustering. |
| title | Nonparametric priors with full-range borrowing of information |
| topic | Methodology Probability Statistics Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00617 |