Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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74
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Sunday, August 3, 2014 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
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Abstract #312156
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Title:
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Random Partition Distribution Indexed by Pairwise Information
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Author(s):
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David Dahl*+ and Ryan Day and Jerry W. Tsai
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Companies:
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Brigham Young University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and University of the Pacific
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Keywords:
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Bayesian nonparametrics ;
Chinese restaurant process ;
Dirichlet process mixture model ;
Nonexchangeable prior ;
Product partition model ;
Protein structure prediction
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Abstract:
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While exchangeable probability models for partitions have attractive properties, they make strong assumptions. For example, the Dirichlet process induces a partition distribution in which the probability that an item is clustered with another is uniform across all items. We propose a random partition distribution indexed by pairwise information such that items which are "close" to each other are more likely to cluster together. Our approach is explicitly nonexchangeable. The proposed distribution is a natural extension of the Chinese restaurant process. We can explicitly write the associated probability mass function as well as the distribution of the number of clusters and its first two moments. We show that a typical Bayesian nonparametric models can be readily modified to use our random partition distribution based on pairwise information. Applying our distribution as a prior clustering distribution in a model for protein structure prediction, we find that the method incorporating pairwise information substantially improve predictive accuracy.
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