WIKS: a general Bayesian nonparametric index for quantifying differences between two populations

DOI10.1007/S11749-020-00718-YMaRDI QIDQ2666044zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rafael de Carvalho Ceregatti, Rafael Izbicki, Luis Ernesto Bueno Salasar

Publication date 22 November 2021

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08307

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian nonparametricshypothesis testingtwo-sample problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10)

Abstract: The problem of deciding whether two samples arise from the same distribution is often the question of interest in many research investigations. Numerous statistical methods have been devoted to this issue, but only few of them have considered a Bayesian nonparametric approach. We propose a nonparametric Bayesian index (WIKS) which has the goal of quantifying the difference between two populations $P_1$ and $P_2$ based on samples from them. The WIKS index is defined by a weighted posterior expectation of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance between $P_1$ and $P_2$ and, differently from most existing approaches, can be easily computed using any prior distribution over $(P_1,P_2)$. Moreover, WIKS is fast to compute and can be justified under a Bayesian decision-theoretic framework. We present a simulation study that indicates that the WIKS method is more powerful than competing approaches in several settings, even in multivariate settings. We also prove that WIKS is a consistent procedure and controls the level of significance uniformly over the null hypothesis. Finally, we apply WIKS to a data set of scale measurements of three different groups of patients submitted to a questionnaire for Alzheimer diagnostic.

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• A nonparametric Bayesian approach for the two-sample problem
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