Bayesian Reading Group – Department of Statistics – University of Missouri – Columbia

 

Winter 2008

 

Tuesdays – 3:30-4:30 pm

 

211 Middlebush Hall

 

 

Previous semester: Fall 2007

 

Jan 29 – Marco Ferreira

                        Marco A. R. Ferreira and Marc A. Suchard, Bayesian Analysis of Elapsed Times in Continuous-Time Markov Chains, to appear in

the Canadian Journal of Statistics.

 

Feb 5 – Hedibert Lopes

                        Hedibert Lopes, Robert McCulloch and Ruey Tsay, Choleski Stochastic Volatility.

 

Feb 19 – Chong He

                        Z. Zhu and Y. Liu, Estimating Spatial Covariance using Penalized Likelihood with Weighted L_1 Penalty.

 

Feb 26 – Dongchu Sun

                        Formal Rule of Reference Priors

 

Mar 4 – Paul Speckman

                        Multiplicative Decorrelating Steps

 

Mar 11 –

 

Mar 18 – Chin-I

                        Andrew Gelman (2006), Prior distributions for variance parameters in hierarchical models, Bayesian Analysis 1, pp. 515–533

 

Apr 1 – Jing Qiu

Hwang, Qiu and Zhao "Empirical Bayes Confidence Intervals Shrinking Both Means and Variances", invited revision by JRSSB.

 

Apr 8 – Luyan Dai

Borus Jungbacker and Siem Jan Koopman, Monte Carlo Estimation for Nonlinear Non-Gaussian State Space Models,
Biometrika 2007 94: 827-839.

Apr 15 – Sakis Micheas

                        Shape Classification problems under complex elliptical distributions

 

Apr 22 – Yu (Ryan) Yue

Wang, Xiaohui; Ray, Shubhankar; Mallick, Bani K. (2007)
Bayesian Curve Classification Using Wavelets, JASA, pp. 962-973(12)

Apr 29 – Jing Zhang

Xiaoping Jin, Sudipto Banerjee and Bradley P. Carlin (2007), Order-free co-regionalized areal data models with application to multiple-disease mapping, JRSS-B

May 6 – Shawn Ni

 

 

 

Professors interested in presenting their own papers or papers by others are very welcome.

Students interested in presenting papers may talk with their advisors about which paper to present.

Below are some suggestions of papers that came out recently:

 

 

Some possible papers to be discussed:

 

 

Biometrika:

 

Ajay Jasra, David A. Stephens, and Christopher C. Holmes
    Population-Based Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo
    Biometrika 2007 94: 787-807

Jason A. Duan, Michele Guindani, and Alan E. Gelfand
    Generalized Spatial Dirichlet Process Models
    Biometrika 2007 94: 809-825

Borus Jungbacker and Siem Jan Koopman
    Monte Carlo Estimation for Nonlinear Non-Gaussian State Space Models
    Biometrika 2007 94: 827-839;



JRSS-B, Feb 2008:

Clustering using objective functions and stochastic search
James G. Booth, George Casella and James P. Hobert
pages 119-139

 


Annals of Statistics, Dec 2007:

Accelerated convergence for nonparametric regression with coarsened predictors
    Aurore Delaigle, Peter Hall and Hans-Georg Muller; 2639-2653


Annals of Stats, Oct 2007:

Spatial aggregation of local likelihood estimates with applications to classification
    Denis Belomestny and Vladimir Spokoiny; 2287-2311

On optimality of Bayesian testimation in the normal means problem
    Felix Abramovich, Vadim Grinshtein and Marianna Pensky; 2261-2286

 

 

JASA

 

Volume 102, Number 477, March 2007

 

Prediction of U.S. Cancer Mortality Counts Using Semiparametric Bayesian Techniques

pp. 7-15(9)

Authors: Ghosh, Kaushik; Tiwari, Ram C.

 

A Unified Semiparametric Framework for Quantitative Trait Loci Analyses, With Application to Spike Phenotypes

pp. 56-67(12)

Authors: Jin, Chunfang; Fine, Jason P.; Yandell, Brian S.

 

A Simple Risk-Adjusted Exponentially Weighted Moving Average

pp. 140-152(13)

Authors: Grigg, Olivia; Spiegelhalter, David

 

Mixed Hidden Markov Models: An Extension of the Hidden Markov Model to the Longitudinal Data Setting

pp. 201-210(10)

Author: Altman, Rachel MacKay

 

Approximate Likelihood for Large Irregularly Spaced Spatial Data

pp. 321-331(11)

Author: Fuentes, Montserrat

 

Strictly Proper Scoring Rules, Prediction, and Estimation

pp. 359-378(20)

Authors: Gneiting, Tilmann; Raftery, Adrian E.

 

 

 

JRSS-B

September 2007 - Vol. 69 Issue 4

 

Convergence rates and asymptotic standard errors for Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms for Bayesian probit regression

Vivekananda Roy and James P. Hobert

pages 607–623

 

Controlling the reinforcement in Bayesian non-parametric mixture models

Antonio Lijoi, RamsŽs H. Mena and Igor PrŸnster

pages 715–740

 

 

 

JRSS-B

June 2007 - Vol. 69 Issue 3

 

Mixture cure survival models with dependent censoring

Yi Li, Ram C. Tiwari and Subharup Guha

pages 285–306

 

 

 

JRSS-B

April 2007 - Vol. 69 Issue 2

 

An optimal experimental design criterion for discriminating between non-normal models

J. L—pez-Fidalgo, C. Tommasi and P. C. Trandafir

pages 231–242

 

Probabilistic forecasts, calibration and sharpness

Tilmann Gneiting, Fadoua Balabdaoui and Adrian E. Raftery

pages 243–268

 

Inference and model choice for sequentially ordered hidden Markov models

Nicolas Chopin

pages 269–284

 

 

 

ANNALS OF STATISTICS

2007 -  Volume 35, Number 2

 

Posterior convergence rates of Dirichlet mixtures at smooth densities

Subhashis Ghosal and Aad van der Vaart; 697-723

 

On the design-consistency property of hierarchical Bayes estimators in finite population sampling

P. Lahiri and Kanchan Mukherjee; 724-737

 

On rates of convergence for posterior distributions in infinite-dimensional models

Stephen G. Walker, Antonio Lijoi and Igor PrŸnster; 738-746

 

 

 

ANNALS OF STATISTICS

2007 -  Volume 35, Number 1

 

Convergence rates of posterior distributions for noniid observations

Subhashis Ghosal and Aad van der Vaart; 192-223

 

Convergence of adaptive mixtures of importance sampling schemes

R. Douc, A. Guillin, J.-M. Marin and C. P. Robert; 420-448

 

 

 

BIOMETRIKA 2007

 

Kenneth Falconer and Carmen Fern‡ndez

Inference on fractal processes using multiresolution approximation

Biometrika 2007 94: 313-334;

 

Jeremy E. Oakley and Anthony O'Hagan

Uncertainty in prior elicitations: a nonparametric approach

Biometrika 2007 94: 427-441;

 

T. Ando

Bayesian predictive information criterion for the evaluation of hierarchical Bayesian and empirical Bayes models

Biometrika 2007 94: 443-458

 

 

JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS 2007

Volume 138, Issue 2

 

Information optimality and Bayesian modelling

Pages 405-429

Bertrand Clarke