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Activity Number: 274 - Advances in Scalable Bayesian Methods for Spatial Data
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
Abstract #320895
Title: Spatial Factor Modeling: A Bayesian Matrix-Normal Approach for Massive Spatial Data with Missing Observations
Author(s): Lu Zhang* and Sudipto Banerjee
Companies: Columbia University and UCLA
Keywords: Bayesian inference; factor models; linear models of coregionalization; matrix-normal distribution; multivariate spatial processes; scalable spatial modeling
Abstract:

The last decade has witnessed substantial developments in scalable models for univariate spatial processes, but such methods for multivariate spatial processes, especially when the number of outcomes is moderately large, are limited in comparison. In this work, we extend scalable modeling strategies for a single process to multivariate processes. We pursue Bayesian inference which is attractive for full uncertainty quantification of the latent spatial process. Our approach exploits distribution theory for the Matrix-Normal distribution, which we use to construct scalable versions of a hierarchical linear model of coregionalization (LMC) and spatial factor models that deliver inference over a high-dimensional parameter space including the latent spatial process.


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