Contributed Papers

Flexible Prior Elicitation for Bayesian Analysis

Wed, Aug 6, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM Room CC-Davidson Ballroom A2 Music City Center

Section on Bayesian Statistical Science

6 Presentations

A Framework for Robust Information Borrowing via Ensembling Priors and Models

8:35 AM - 8:50 AM

Co-authors: Xinxin Chen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Xinxin Chen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Ethan Alt (GSK), Joseph Ibrahim (University of North Carolina)

Information borrowing Prior Elicitation Bayesian analysis

Automated Prior Elicitation for Bayesian Metabolomics Analysis

8:50 AM - 9:05 AM

Co-authors: Chiraag Gohel (The George Washington University), Ali Rahnavard (The George Washington University), Chiraag Gohel (The George Washington University)

Bayesian Statistics Metabolomics Prior Solicitation Differential Abundance Pathway Analysis Biomarker Discovery

Informative Variance Priors for Bayesian Multilevel Modeling with Large and Small Samples

9:05 AM - 9:20 AM

Co-authors: Liu Liu (University of Georgia), Liu Liu (University of Georgia), David Okech (University of Georgia), Hui Yi (University of Georgia)

Bayesian Multilevel modeling Informative variance priors Inverse-gamma Hierarchical data Small sample estimation

Power Prior Bayesian Analysis using PROC BGLIMM

9:20 AM - 9:50 AM

Co-authors: Yi Gong (SAS), Fang Chen (SAS Institute, Inc.), Yi Gong (SAS)

Bayesian analysis historical data information borrowing power prior PROC BGLIMM

Sparse inverse covariance selection with mass-nonlocal priors

9:50 AM - 10:05 AM

Co-authors: Taiwo Fagbohungbe, Liangliang Zhang (Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University), Taiwo Fagbohungbe, Xuan Cao (University of Cincinnati)

Bayesian inference Graphical model selection Nonlocal prior Spike and slab prior

Bayesian Model Averaging for Linear Regression Models With Heavy-Tailed Errors

10:05 AM - 10:20 AM

Co-authors: Shamriddha De (The University of Iowa), Shamriddha De (The University of Iowa), Joyee Ghosh (University of Iowa)

Bayesian Huberized lasso Gibbs sampler Hyperbolic distribution Spike and slab priors Student-t distribution