Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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230
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 5, 2013 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
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Abstract - #308952 |
Title:
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EMVS: The EM Approach to Bayesian Variable Selection
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Author(s):
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Veronika Rockova*+ and Edward George
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Companies:
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Erasmus University and Wharton University of Pennsylvania
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Keywords:
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High Dimensionality ;
Regularization Plots ;
Sparsity ;
SSVS
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Abstract:
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Despite rapid developments in stochastic search algorithms, the practicality of Bayesian variable selection methods has continued to pose challenges. High-dimensional data are now routinely analyzed, typically with many more covariates than observations. To broaden the applicability of Bayesian variable selection for high-dimensional linear regression contexts, we propose EMVS, a deterministic alternative to stochastic search based on an EM algorithm which exploits a conjugate mixture prior formulation to quickly find posterior modes. Combining a spike-and-slab regularization diagram for the discovery of active predictor sets with subsequent rigorous evaluation of posterior model probabilities, EMVS rapidly identifies promising sparse high posterior probability submodels. External structural information such as likely covariate groupings or network topologies is easily incorporated into the EMVS framework. Deterministic annealing variants are seen to improve the effectiveness of our algorithms by mitigating the posterior multi-modality associated with variable selection priors. The usefulness the EMVS approach is demonstrated on real high-dimensional data.
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