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Activity Number: 155
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, August 10, 2015 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: IMS
Abstract #314418
Title: Bayes in Two Stages: Utility-Based Posterior Summaries
Author(s): Carlos M. Carvalho* and Paul Richard Hahn and Robert E. McCulloch
Companies: The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Chicago and The University of Chicago
Keywords: variable selection ; posterior summary
Abstract:

A posterior summary is proposed, which distills a full posterior distribution over prediction models into a sequence of sparse summaries. Application in linear models, graphical models and trees are presented.

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