Being Bayesian in the 2020s: opportunities and challenges in the practice of modern applied Bayesian statistics

JJ Bon, A Bretherton, K Buchhorn… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Building on a strong foundation of philosophy, theory, methods and computation over the
past three decades, Bayesian approaches are now an integral part of the toolkit for most …

A linear adjustment-based approach to posterior drift in transfer learning

S Maity, D Dutta, J Terhorst, Y Sun, M Banerjee - Biometrika, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present new models and methods for the posterior drift problem where the regression
function in the target domain is modelled as a linear adjustment, on an appropriate scale, of …

Maxway CRT: improving the robustness of the model-X inference

S Li, M Liu - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The model-X conditional randomisation test (CRT) is a flexible and powerful testing
procedure for testing the hypothesis X⫫ Y∣ Z. However, it requires perfect knowledge of …

Estimating trans-ancestry genetic correlation with unbalanced data resources

B Zhao, X Yang, H Zhu - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this article is to propose a novel method for estimating trans-ancestry genetic
correlations in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) using genetically predicted …

KnockoffTrio: A knockoff framework for the identification of putative causal variants in genome-wide association studies with trio design

Y Yang, C Wang, L Liu, J Buxbaum, Z He… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
Family-based designs can eliminate confounding due to population substructure and can
distinguish direct from indirect genetic effects, but these designs are underpowered due to …

Individualized conditional independence testing under model-X with heterogeneous samples and interactions

M Sesia, T Sun - arxiv preprint arxiv:2205.08653, 2022 - arxiv.org
Model-X knockoffs and the conditional randomization test are methods that search for
conditional associations in large data sets, controlling the type-I errors if the joint distribution …

An Exploration of the Statistical Challenges and Fairness Implications of Transfer Learning

S Maity - 2024 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
The main goal of transfer learning strategies is to enhance the efficiency of learning models
applied to target tasks by transferring knowledge from similar, yet distinct, source tasks …

Transfer sequential Monte Carlo: A framework for Bayesian model transfer

A Bretherton - 2023 - eprints.qut.edu.au
Model transfer is the task of using information from source domains to improve inference on
a target domain with limited data. In real applications it is unclear when to transfer …

[CYTOWANIE][C] Searching for subgroup-specific associations while controlling the false discovery rate

M Sesia, T Sun - arxiv preprint arxiv:2205.08653, 2022