Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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607
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Business and Economic Statistics Section
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Abstract #313497
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Title:
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Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Spatial Clustering of Curves: A Bayesian Approach Applied to Portuguese Regional Fertility Rates
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Author(s):
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Arnab Bhattacharjee*+ and Tapabrata Maiti and Eduardo Castro and Zhen Zhang
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Companies:
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Heriot-Watt University and Michigan State University and Aveiro University and Michigan State University
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Keywords:
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Spatio-temporal modeling ;
Conditional Autoregressive model ;
Spatial clustering ;
Wavelet Smoothing ;
Functional mixed-effects model ;
Bayesian Hierarchical Model
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Abstract:
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It is important for social analyses and policy-making to obtain accurate estimates of demographic variables such as age-specific fertility rates, by regions and over time, and the uncertainty associated with such estimation. In this paper, we consider a Bayesian hierarchical model with separable spatio-temporal dependence structure that admits the Markov property and can be estimated by borrowing strength from all regions and years. Further, we explore the local similarity of temporal evolution and dependence by developing a spatial clustering model for temporal or functional data based on Bayesian nonparametric smoothing techniques, such as wavelet shrinkage methods. We extend existing functional mixed-effects model with random block decomposition of the covariance matrix and further, our model allows difference scaling and shrinkage levels of wavelet coefficients across random groups. The traditional empirical Bayes estimators for the hyper-parameters under such random group structure are generally not available, and we derive an empirical procedure to determine a prior distribution to incorporate these parameters in a Gibbs circle. The proposed model is applied to 16-year data o
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