So many variables: joint modeling in community ecology

DI Warton, FG Blanchet, RB O'Hara… - Trends in ecology & …, 2015 - cell.com
Technological advances have enabled a new class of multivariate models for ecology, with
the potential now to specify a statistical model for abundances jointly across many taxa, to …

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 …

[LIBRO][B] Joint species distribution modelling: With applications in R

O Ovaskainen, N Abrego - 2020 - books.google.com
Joint species distribution modelling (JSDM) is a fast-develo** field and promises to
revolutionise how data on ecological communities are analysed and interpreted. Written for …

Uncovering hidden spatial structure in species communities with spatially explicit joint species distribution models

O Ovaskainen, DB Roy, R Fox… - Methods in Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Modern species distribution models account for spatial autocorrelation in order to obtain
unbiased statistical inference on the effects of covariates, to improve the model's predictive …

Fast sampling with Gaussian scale mixture priors in high-dimensional regression

A Bhattacharya, A Chakraborty, BK Mallick - Biometrika, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We propose an efficient way to sample from a class of structured multivariate Gaussian
distributions. The proposed algorithm only requires matrix multiplications and linear system …

Using latent variable models to identify large networks of species‐to‐species associations at different spatial scales

O Ovaskainen, N Abrego, P Halme… - Methods in Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We present a hierarchical latent variable model that partitions variation in species
occurrences and co‐occurrences simultaneously at multiple spatial scales. We illustrate how …

Using joint species distribution models for evaluating how species‐to‐species associations depend on the environmental context

G Tikhonov, N Abrego, D Dunson… - Methods in Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Joint species distribution models (JSDM) are increasingly used to analyse community
ecology data. Recent progress with JSDM s has provided ecologists with new tools for …

Visualizing the structure of RNA-seq expression data using grade of membership models

KK Dey, CJ Hsiao, M Stephens - PLoS genetics, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Grade of membership models, also known as “admixture models”,“topic models” or “Latent
Dirichlet Allocation”, are a generalization of cluster models that allow each sample to have …

Compressive hyperspectral imaging with side information

X Yuan, TH Tsai, R Zhu, P Llull… - IEEE Journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A blind compressive sensing algorithm is proposed to reconstruct hyperspectral images from
spectrally-compressed measurements. The wavelength-dependent data are coded and then …

Adaptive shrinkage in Bayesian vector autoregressive models

F Huber, M Feldkircher - Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Vector autoregressive (VAR) models are frequently used for forecasting and impulse
response analysis. For both applications, shrinkage priors can help improving inference. In …