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Topic-Contributed Paper Session

SBSS Student Paper Award I

Mon, Aug 4, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM Room CC-106A Music City Center

Anindya BhadraOrganizerSally PaganinChair

Section on Bayesian Statistical Science co: No Additional Sponsorco: No Additional Sponsor

5 Presentations

Bayesian Restricted Likelihood, Generalized Bayes and Model Misspecification

10:35 AM - 10:55 AM

Xinyu Zhang (Ohio State University)

Co-authors: Steven MacEachern (The Ohio State University)

Partial Likelihood Generalized Bayes Update M-estimator Posterior Asymptotics

Bend to Mend: Toward Trustworthy Variational Bayes with Valid Uncertainty Quantification

10:55 AM - 11:15 AM

Jiaming Liu (Rice University)

Variational Bayes, fractional posterior, sample splitting Bootstrap, credible interval calibration

Improved control of Dirichlet location and scale near the boundary

11:15 AM - 11:35 AM

Catherine Xue (Harvard)

Co-authors: Alessandro Zito (Harvard University), Jeffrey Miller (Harvard School of Public Health)

Dirichlet distribution beta distribution Bayesian inference conjugate priors Markov chain Monte Carlo

Infinite Joint Species Distribution Models

11:35 AM - 11:55 AM

Bayesian Ecology Indian buffet process Multivariate binary response

Scalable piecewise smoothing with BART

11:55 AM - 12:15 PM

BART nonparametrics regression trees ensemble learning neural networks

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