Powering research through innovative methods for mixtures in epidemiology (PRIME) program: novel and expanded statistical methods

BR Joubert, MA Kioumourtzoglou… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Humans are exposed to a diverse mixture of chemical and non-chemical exposures across
their lifetimes. Well-designed epidemiology studies as well as sophisticated exposure …

Sparse Bayesian factor analysis when the number of factors is unknown

S Frühwirth-Schnatter, D Hosszejni… - Bayesian Analysis, 2024 - projecteuclid.org
There has been increased research interest in the subfield of sparse Bayesian factor
analysis with shrinkage priors, which achieve additional sparsity beyond the natural …

spAbundance: An R package for single‐species and multi‐species spatially explicit abundance models

JW Doser, AO Finley, M Kéry… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous modelling techniques exist to estimate abundance of plant and animal
populations. The most accurate methods account for multiple complexities found in …

Inferring covariance structure from multiple data sources via subspace factor analysis

NK Chandra, DB Dunson, J Xu - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Factor analysis provides a canonical framework for imposing lower-dimensional structure
such as sparse covariance in high-dimensional data. High-dimensional data on the same …

Efficiently resolving rotational ambiguity in Bayesian matrix sampling with matching

E Poworoznek, N Anceschi, F Ferrari… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
A wide class of Bayesian models involve unidentifiable random matrices that display
rotational ambiguity, with the Gaussian factor model being a typical example. A rich variety …

Linear-cost unbiased posterior estimates for crossed effects and matrix factorization models via couplings

PM Ceriani, G Zanella - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.08939, 2024 - arxiv.org
We design and analyze unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) schemes based on
couplings of blocked Gibbs samplers (BGSs), whose total computational costs scale linearly …

Fast variational inference for Bayesian factor analysis in single and multi-study settings

B Hansen, A Avalos-Pacheco, M Russo… - … of Computational and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Factors models are commonly used to analyze high-dimensional data in both single-study
and multi-study settings. Bayesian inference for such models relies on Markov Chain Monte …

[HTML][HTML] Creating area level indices of behaviours impacting cancer in Australia with a Bayesian generalised shared component model

J Hogg, S Cramb, J Cameron, P Baade, K Mengersen - Health & Place, 2024 - Elsevier
This study develops a model-based index approach called the Generalised Shared
Component Model (GSCM) by drawing on the large field of factor models. The proposed …

Adaptive partition Factor Analysis

E Bortolato, A Canale - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.18939, 2024 - arxiv.org
Factor Analysis has traditionally been utilized across diverse disciplines to extrapolate latent
traits that influence the behavior of multivariate observed variables. Historically, the focus …

Dynamic factor analysis with dependent Gaussian processes for high-dimensional gene expression trajectories

J Cai, RJB Goudie, C Starr, BDM Tom - Biometrics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The increasing availability of high-dimensional, longitudinal measures of gene expression
can facilitate understanding of biological mechanisms, as required for precision medicine …