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Non- and Semi-Parametric Approximation to Bayesian Computation
【2014.9.26 4:30pm, N602】

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 2014-9-26 

  Colloquia & Seminars 

  Speaker

Prof. Jiti Gao,Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences, Australian Professorial Fellow,Chair Professor of Econometrics, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University 

  Title

Non- and Semi-Parametric Approximation to Bayesian Computation  

  Time

2014.9.26 4:30pm

  Venue

N602

  Abstract

This paper proposes a general nonparametric regression approach to the estimation and computation of posterior means. We first consider the case where the samples can be independently drawn from both the likelihood function and the prior density. The samples and observations are then used to nonparametrically estimate posterior mean functions. The estimation method is also applied to estimate the posterior mean of the parameter-of-interest on a summary statistic. Both the asymptotic theory and the finite sample study show that the nonparametric estimate of this posterior mean is superior to existing estimates, including the conventional sample mean.
This paper then proposes some non- and semi-parametric dimensional reduction methods to deal with the case where the dimensionality of either the regressors or the summary statistics is large. Meanwhile, the paper finally discusses the case where the samples are obtained from using an Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling algorithm. The asymptotic theory shows that the rate of convergence of the nonparametric estimate based on the MCMC samples is faster than that of the conventional nonparametric estimation method by an order of the number of the MCMC samples. The proposed models and estimation methods are evaluated through using both the simulated and real data examples. 

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