Category Archives: approximate Bayesian computation

Papers of the day

Posted on 8 March 2017 by ecoquant

From the Machine Learning and Computational Modeling Lab, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran: A. Ahmadian, K. Fouladi, B. N. Araabi, “Writer identification using a probabilistic model of handwritten digits and Approximate Bayesian Computation,” International … Continue reading →

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Cory Lesmeister’s treatment of Simson’s Paradox (at “Fear and Loathing in Data Science”)

Posted on 7 May 2016 by ecoquant

(Updated 2016-05-08, to provide reference for plateaus of ML functions in vicinity of MLE.) Simpson’s Paradox is one of those phenomena of data which really give Statistics a substance and a role, beyond the roles it inherits from, say, theoretical … Continue reading →

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p-values and hypothesis tests: the Bayesian(s) rule

Posted on 7 March 2016 by ecoquant

The American Statistical Association of which I am a longtime member issued an important statement today which will hopefully move statistical practice in engineering and especially in the sciences away from the misleading practice of using p-values and hypothesis tests. … Continue reading →

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“Grid shading by simulated annealing” [Martyn Plummer]

Posted on 9 February 2016 by ecoquant

Source: Grid shading by simulated annealing (or what I did on my holidays), aka “fun with GCHQ job adverts”, by Martyn Plummer, developer of JAGS. Excerpt: I wanted to solve the puzzle but did not want to sit down with … Continue reading →

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Generating supports for classification rules in black box regression models

Posted on 25 January 2016 by ecoquant

Inspired by the extensive and excellent work in approximate Bayesian computation (see also), especially that done by Professors Christian Robert and colleagues (see also), and Professor Simon Wood (see also), it occurred to me that the complaints regarding lack of … Continue reading →

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reblog: “Tiny Data, Approximate Bayesian Computation and the Socks of Karl Broman”

Posted on 24 November 2015 by ecoquant

It’s Rasmus Bååth, in a post and video of which I am very fond: http://www.sumsar.net/blog/2014/10/tiny-data-and-the-socks-of-karl-broman/.

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On differential localization of tumors using relative concentrations of ctDNA. Part 1.

Posted on 11 October 2015 by ecoquant

Like most mammalian tissue, tumors often produce shards of DNA as a byproduct of cell death and fracture. This circulating tumor DNA is being studied as a means of detecting tumors or their resurgence after treatment. (See also a Q&A … Continue reading →

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“The Bayesian Second Law of Thermodynamics” (Sean Carroll, and collaborators)

Posted on 11 August 2015 by ecoquant

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2015/08/11/the-bayesian-second-law-of-thermodynamics/ See also.

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“Unbiased Bayes for Big Data: Path of partial posteriors” (Christian Robert)

Posted on 22 March 2015 by ecoquant

Unbiased Bayes for Big Data: Path of partial posteriors.

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engineering and understanding with stable models

Posted on 2 February 2015 by ecoquant

Stable distributions or Lévy -stable models is a class of probability distributions which contains the Gaussian, the Cauchy (or Lorentz), and the Lévy distribution. They are parameterized by an which is . Values of of 1 or less give distributions … Continue reading →

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On nested equivalence classes of climate models, ordered by computational complexity

Posted on 2 January 2015 by ecoquant

I’m digging into the internals of ABC, for professional and scientific reasons. I’ve linked a great tutorial elsewhere, and argued that this framework, advanced by Wood, and Wilkinson (Robert), and Wilkinson (Darren), and Hartig and colleagues, and Robert and colleagues, … Continue reading →

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“[W]e want to model the process as we would simulate it.”

Posted on 28 December 2014 by ecoquant

Professor Darren Wilkinson offers a pithy insight on how to go about constructing statistical models, notably hierarchical ones: “… we want to model the process as we would simulate it ….” This appears in his blog post One-way ANOVA with … Continue reading →

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struggling with problems already partly solved by others

Posted on 26 December 2014 by ecoquant

Climate modelers and models see as their frontier the problem of dealing with spontaneous dynamics in systems such as atmosphere or ocean which are not directly forced by boundary conditions such as radiative forcing due to increased greenhouse gas (“GHG”) … Continue reading →

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