[ספר][B] Bringing Bayesian models to life

MB Hooten, T Hefley - 2019‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Bringing Bayesian Models to Life empowers the reader to extend, enhance, and implement
statistical models for ecological and environmental data analysis. We open the black box …

Demographic and evolutionary consequences of hunting of wild birds

E Grzegorczyk, A Caizergues, C Eraud… - Biological …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Hunting has a long tradition in human evolutionary history and remains a common leisure
activity or an important source of food. Herein, we first briefly review the literature on the …

Robust generalised Bayesian inference for intractable likelihoods

T Matsubara, J Knoblauch, FX Briol… - Journal of the Royal …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Generalised Bayesian inference updates prior beliefs using a loss function, rather than a
likelihood, and can therefore be used to confer robustness against possible mis …

Exponential-family models of random graphs

M Schweinberger, PN Krivitsky, CT Butts, JR Stewart - Statistical Science, 2020‏ - JSTOR
Exponential-family Random Graph Models (ERGMs) constitute a large statistical framework
for modeling dense and sparse random graphs with short-or long-tailed degree distributions …

Bayesian analysis of the ordinal Markov random field

M Marsman, D van den Bergh, JMB Haslbeck - Psychometrika, 2023‏ - cambridge.org
Multivariate analysis using graphical models is rapidly gaining ground in psychology. In
particular, Markov random field (MRF) graphical models have become popular because …

Exponential random graph models for little networks

GGV Yon, A Slaughter, K de la Haye - Social Networks, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Statistical models for social networks have enabled researchers to study complex social
phenomena that give rise to observed patterns of relationships among social actors and to …

Generalized Bayesian inference for discrete intractable likelihood

T Matsubara, J Knoblauch, FX Briol… - Journal of the American …, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
Discrete state spaces represent a major computational challenge to statistical inference,
since the computation of normalization constants requires summation over large or possibly …

Unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo for intractable target distributions

L Middleton, G Deligiannidis, A Doucet, PE Jacob - 2020‏ - projecteuclid.org
Performing numerical integration when the integrand itself cannot be evaluated point-wise is
a challenging task that arises in statistical analysis, notably in Bayesian inference for models …

A survey of Monte Carlo methods for noisy and costly densities with application to reinforcement learning and ABC

F Llorente, L Martino, J Read… - International …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
This survey gives an overview of Monte Carlo methodologies using surrogate models, for
dealing with densities that are intractable, costly, and/or noisy. This type of problem can be …

On the normalized power prior

LM Carvalho, JG Ibrahim - Statistics in Medicine, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The power prior is a popular tool for constructing informative prior distributions based on
historical data. The method consists of raising the likelihood to a discounting factor in order …