Using informative priors in the estimation of mixtures over time with application to aerosol particle size distributions

DOI10.1214/13-AOAS678MaRDI QIDQ2453667zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Darren Wraith, Judith Rousseau, Tareq Hussein, K. Mengersen, C. L. Alston

Publication date 10 June 2014

Published in The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4244, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1396966285

zbMATH Keywords

aerosol particle size distributionBayesian statisticsmixture modelstime series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Time series, auto-correlation, regression, etc. in statistics (GARCH) (62M10) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

Abstract: The issue of using informative priors for estimation of mixtures at multiple time points is examined. Several different informative priors and an independent prior are compared using samples of actual and simulated aerosol particle size distribution (PSD) data. Measurements of aerosol PSDs refer to the concentration of aerosol particles in terms of their size, which is typically multimodal in nature and collected at frequent time intervals. The use of informative priors is found to better identify component parameters at each time point and more clearly establish patterns in the parameters over time. Some caveats to this finding are discussed.

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